Opera

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back, and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

—Robert Benchley

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

—Ed Gardner

Bed is the poor man's opera.

—Italian proverb

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

—W. H. Auden

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

—Sir Edward Appleton