Famous quotes containing the words vienna and/or center:
“All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy. But Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners, and name of that interest, saying, that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which, in fact, constitutes a sort of free- masonry. M. de Narbonne, in less than a fortnight, penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Whenever theres a big war coming on, you should rope off a big field. And on the big day, you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals, put em in the center dressed in their underpants and let them fight it out with clubs. The best country wins.”
—Maxwell Anderson (18881959)