Quote by Henry Louis Mencken Download Open image ““Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”” — Henry Louis Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I like Italian High Opera, German Comic Opera and the Grand Ole’ Opry – in no particular order.” — C.L. Gammon Copy Share Image
“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“In fact, is the idea of a serious comparison of American musicals and opera really so outrageous?” — Lawrence W. Levine Copy Share Image
“At the opera, the music makes no sense; here in the street it has just the right demented touch to give it poignancy.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching… — John Eaton Copy Share Image
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
“It was weird, ’cause there we were in Italy listening to people singing in German. The music was nice, though, and there was this guy dressed up like a parrot. If you’d asked me a year ago to guess what opera was like, I’d never have guessed it had guys dressed as parrots. I might’ve wanted to go and see… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share
Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
“An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
