The Beggar's Opera Quotes

#1. Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

Peter Mullan

#2. Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.

Criss Jami

#3. I think any time you're in a new relationship, there's so much to look forward to.

Anton Yelchin

#4. All work is easy work.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#5. Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.

Thomas Browne

#6. Sleep looked so much like death, he saw. Every night people perished, if but for a moment.

Hugh Howey

#7. Hoarding kings are to be pitied in their lifetime
when they can't take their riches
to the grave.

- Gwallawg is Other

Taliesin

#8. Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

Charlie Brooker

#9. You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ...

Robert McKee

#10. Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos.

Robyn Davidson

#11. I am beggining to realise," Alex murmured, "why people always hope for sons. It has nothing to do with producing an heir."
"That was unkind," Octavia said, not sounding the least bit insulted.
"Females are a prodigious amount of work.

Julia Quinn

#12. The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.

Caitlin Fitzgerald

#13. Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

Kara Walker