Quotes about Opera

Each of the ladies, being after the fashion of their sex, highly trained in promoting men's talk without listening to it, could think—about the education of children, about the use of fog sirens in an opera—without betraying herself. Only it struck Helen that Rachel was perhaps too still for a hostess, and that she might have done something with her hands.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.