King of Germany

Famous quotes containing the words king and/or germany:

“Those banners come to bribe or threaten
Or whisper that a man’s a fool
Who when his own right king’s forgotten
Cares what king sets up his rule.
If he died long ago
Why do you dread us so?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)