#verdi

If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#mozart #opera #shakespeare #verdi #wagner

The verdict of the world is conclusive. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#verdict #world

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#closing #deal #end #friend #having

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#beds #every #fate #men #piety

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#blow #both #cause #character #commonly

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there. ↗

— Lance Ito

#american #american public #being #definite #how

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. ↗

— Juvenal

#first #guilty #heart #his #man

Orfeo son io, che d'Euridice i passi Seguo per queste tenebrose arene Ove giammai per vom mortal non vassi. ↗

— Claudio Monteverdi

#inspirational #monteverdi #orfeo #inspirational

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. ↗

— Voltaire

#guilt #innocence #judgment #justice #mercy

When hatred judges, the verdict is just guilty. ↗

— Toba Beta

#hatred #judge #just #verdict #hatred