Scene

Famous quotes containing the word scene:

    “‘Twas that friends, the belov’d of my bosom, were near,
    Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,”
    —Thomas Moore (1779–1852)

    “[Your letters] serve like gleams of light, to cheer a dreary scene where envy, hatred, malice, revenge, and all the worse passions of men are marshalled to make one another as miserable as possible.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, or possibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene ...”
    —Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865–1932)