Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse…

The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.

— Anonymous

“L'audace, I'audace, toujours l'audace! “ Remember that, gentlemen. From here on out, until we win or die in the attempt, we will aways be audacious.”

— Ladislas Farago

Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

— John Milton

“Not for thirty reigns have there been so many grand people in the court at Goslar at one time,” said he. “Strike a medal…

— R.A. Lafferty

“There is living and there is death," the Emperor said. "Pain is irrelevant unless it leads to the latter.”

— M.C.A. Hogarth

“A girl by any other name still smells as sweet, and, baby, you sure do smell good.”

— M.K. Schiller

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

— Cyril Connolly

“I have never heard a lady say 'arse,'" the emperor said mildly. "I haven't been a lady for long," I reminded him. A little…

— Alison Goodman

“The Chatcaava consumed themselves and others with their savagery, and the Eldritch dwindled into elegant irrelevance... and ignored by them both, save when it…

— M.C.A. Hogarth

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

— Ouida

“He (the Emperor) once said of ancient Earth that there were torches, who were the teachers, but also extinguishers, who were the priests.”

— Graham McNeill

“Ox, what occupation is most closely linked to insanity?' 'Emperor,' I said promptly.”

— Barry Hughart

“Everything that smells sweet, doesn't taste sweet!!”

— Vijaya Raje Lakshmi

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

— James Anthony Froude

“I remember when Deng said, ‘It doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.’ To which Mao…

— Tom Clancy