Famous quotes containing the words opera, english and/or century:
“I have witnessed, and greatly enjoyed, the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“He that bulls the cow must keep the calf.”
—Sixteenth-century English proverb.
“It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
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