Famous quotes containing the word amadeus:
“It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.”
—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)