Famous quotes containing the words frederick ii, emperor and/or frederick:
“Our work ... is to present things that are as they are.”
—Frederick II Hohenstaufen (1194–1250)
“Such is the caprice of Romans ... who reject kings in name but not in practice, and accept an Emperor mightier than a hundred kings.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“For should your hands drop white and empty
All the toys of the world would break.”
—John Frederick Nims (b. 1913)