Top 8 Quotes by George Frideric Handel

I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.

I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.

Music, Sorry, Wish

George Frideric Handel (1854). “Messiah; a Sacred Oratorio ... Arranged for the Organ Or Pianoforte, with Vocal Score, by G. J. Elvey”, p.9

Learn all there is to learn, and then choose your own path.

George Frideric Handel

Path

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

George Frideric Handel

Music, God, Writing

Of the'Hallelujah Chorus' in his Messiah. Quoted in Romain Rolland Essays on Music (1948).

What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith! How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners! If we were to rely on our works-my God, what would become of us?

George Frideric Handel

Grace, Church, Wonderful

I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.

George Frideric Handel

Thinking, Heaven

"Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs, Volume 1". Book by Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, 1822; later quoted in Horatio Townsend "An Account of the Visit of Handel to Dublin" (p. 93), 1852.