Opening Scene

Famous quotes containing the words opening scene, opening and/or scene:

    And then ... he flung open the door of my compartment, and ushered in “Ma young and lovely lady!” I muttered to myself with some bitterness. “And this is, of course, the opening scene of Vol. I. She is the Heroine. And I am one of those subordinate characters that only turn up when needed for the development of her destiny, and whose final appearance is outside the church, waiting to greet the Happy Pair!”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    Seeing myself well lost once more, I sighed,
    “Where, where in Heaven am I? But don’t tell me!
    O opening clouds, by opening on me wide.
    Let’s let my heavenly lostness overwhelm me.”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
    Am an attendant lord, one that will do
    To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)