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My passion for opera-the eternal truth of drama through music-has grown, while my interest in performance has diminished. Which is perhaps as good a reason as any other to go quietly.


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LORD MANSFIELD In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and v...
LORD CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
LORD CHESTERFIELD It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
LORD JEFFREY If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
LORD MELBOURNE True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows afte...
LORD MANSFIELD Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
LORD CHESTERFIELD He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
LORD BARNETT Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled membe...
LORD DENNING Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
LORD BEAVERBROOK