A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

"9W"<br>Answer to the question: Do you spell your name with a V, Mr. Vagner?

Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows.

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.

There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.