Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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