A Quote by Peter Shaffer

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

Peter Shaffer

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Peter Shaffer
English - Novelist
May 15, 1926 - June 6, 2016

I was a waitress at a really rundown Italian restaurant in Dublin, for about a week, at 16. I thought it was going to be romantic - overhearing affairs and watching first-time couples all loved up. But instead I was just running about constantly.

Dervla Kirwan

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

H. L. Mencken

a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job! And five nose running brats in love with Batman

Gregory Corso

I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.

Penelope Cruz

I love the Italian culture, it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes, I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.

Penelope Cruz

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

George Bernard Shaw

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

Lesley Garrett

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Camryn Manheim

I would love to see more acknowledgement of how challenging it is to feel positive about fatness when you can't find clothing. When there literally is not something made for your body. Nobody ever talks about that; all those fat girl clothes swaps and stuff are for a very specific kind of fat girl. If I was Lane Bryant fat, I would be joyful about fatness.

Roxane Gay

I've spent my whole life watching straight couples and I still learned about love. It doesn't necessarily matter who's playing the part.

Scott Evans

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

Edward Abbey

I just love Italian, and I think, from being Italian, I just love Italian food.

Jessie James Decker

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

Antonio Banderas

I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

D. H. Lawrence

You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.