“I am the Emperor, and I want dumplings.”
Ferdinand I of Austria, quoted in The Fall of the House of Habsburg (1963) by Edward Crankshaw
Misattributed
Ferdinand de Habsbourg
“I am the Emperor, and I want dumplings.”
Ferdinand I of Austria, quoted in The Fall of the House of Habsburg (1963) by Edward Crankshaw
Misattributed
“Let justice be done, though the world perish.”
Fiat iustitia et pereat mundus.
Motto, quoted in Locorum Communium Collectanea (1563)