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)
“Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“For should your hands drop white and empty
All the toys of the world would break.”
—John Frederick Nims (b. 1913)