George Frideric Handel
Quotations

"Milord, I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wished to make them better. "

 

"Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows."

- Referring to the Messiah

 

"It's much too good for him; he did not know what to do with it."

- When asked why he borrowed material composed by Bononcini

 

"Should I have had to spend money in order to be like those idiots? Never in this world!"

- On refusing an honorary degree from Oxford (which would have cost him money)

 

"I used to write like the devil in those days"

- On his childhood