The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Quote by Cleveland Amory

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The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops...

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops...

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and...

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and...

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well...

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well...

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard...

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard...

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

A good family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

A good family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and...

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and...

We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show....

We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show....

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he...

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he...

Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.

Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.

Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to...

Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to...

Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has...

Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has...

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has...

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has...

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in...

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in...

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he...

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he...

The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead

The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead

I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I...

I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I...