"I know myself, and I have such a sense of religion that I shall never do anything which I would not do before the whole world; but I am alarmed at the very thoughts of being in the society of people, …"

"I am a composer and therefore I do not have to think about anything else."

"I have never studied music, it comes to me naturally."

"Constanze is not ugly, but anything but beautiful; all her beauty consists of two little black eyes and a handsome figure."

"A goodly number of high nobility was present: the Duchess Kickass, the Countess Pisshappy, also the Princess Smellshit with her two daughters, who are married to the two Princes of Mustbelly von Pigta…"