An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.