Absolutes Quote by Samuel Wilberforce

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

— Hannah More

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and that's what…

— Steven Berkoff

To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want.

— Robert Lepage

I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me.

— Charles Townshend

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I…

— Margaret Fuller

Theatres are like sacred places - you hear the stories of previous performances and people who have strived to find that sweet spot on…

— Jonathan Bailey

The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet…

— Tony Kushner

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

— Constantin Stanislavski