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|caption=Noël Coward
|quote=People are wrong when they say that the opera isn't what it used to be. It is what it used to be—that's what's wrong with it!
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|detail=from in his play Design for Living
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Source
- The line is spoken by Gilda in Act 3, Scene 1 of the play. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kzwvp1zRqkUC&pg=PA72 Coward Plays: 3: Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight], p. 72. Methuen, 1979. {{ISBN|0413461009}}