Famous quotes containing the word amadeus:
“It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.”
—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)
“My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great- grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.”
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
“Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.”
—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)