I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the,… — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Let your throat-song be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length suppliant, at the door. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help)… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU]… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In the new Georgia, Stalin is no longer Georgian. He's a Russian emperor. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there… — Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I've never thought of it consciously... I say exactly what I think, and very often it's totally politically incorrect. I get, always,… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
