Die Meistersinger Von

Famous quotes containing the words die and/or von:

“When I die at any rate I shall do so in the full and certain hope that there will be no resurrection, but that death will give me quittance in full.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)