Quintessence Played

Famous quotes containing the words quintessence and/or played:

“That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: “Reason, a thorn in Revelation’s side.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.”
—John Mortimer (b. 1923)