Emperor Joseph II

Famous quotes containing the words emperor joseph ii, emperor and/or joseph:

    Emperor Joseph II: Your work is ingenious. It’s quality work, and there are simply too many notes, that’s all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.
    Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, majesty?
    Peter Shaffer (b. 1926)

    Let be be finale of seem.
    The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)