Explore Quotes by Victor Borge

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible? and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.