Famous quotes containing the words warren, opera and/or house:
“But it thought no bed too narrowit stood with lips askew
And shook its great head sadly like the abstract Jew.”
—Robert Penn Warren (19051989)
“He rides in the Row at ten oclock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You dont call that leading an idle life, do you?”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“A serious house on serious earth it is,
In whose blent air all our compulsions meet,
Are recognised, and robed as destinies,
And that much never can be obsolete,”
—Philip Larkin (19221985)
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