Famous quotes containing the words sophie arnould and/or opera:
“They give themselves to God when the Devil will no longer have them.”
—Sophie Arnould (1740–1802)
“A pretty air in an opera is prettier there than it could be anywhere else, I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)