Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.
The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.
If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.
There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.
I don't own anything designer.
We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance. There is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian. What you cannot clearly say, you don't know:To tongue of man his thought brings word:What's said obscurely is what's thought obscurely.