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Famous quotes containing the words comic, opera and/or french:

    “Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
    For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be’s.
    The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
    Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”
    —Billie Burke (1885–1970)

    “The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like.”
    —Jules Mazarin (c. 1602–1661)