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- "9W"
Answer to the question: Do you spell your name with a V, Mr. Vagner? - Steve Allen, from the Question Man segment on the Steve Allen Show
- Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.
- Eduard Hanslick
- Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows.
- P.A. Fiorentino
- The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.
- The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
- There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal
- The National, Paris, 1850
- Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), (Attributed)
- The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
- A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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