Emperor Quotes

“The clothes have no emperor.”

— Stewart Elliott Guthrie

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

— Henry David Thoreau

The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.

— Ambrose

The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

— Saint Ambrose

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

— Wallace Stevens

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.

— Mary Cantwell

You don't meet a girl like that every dynasty. -Emperor

— Mulan

No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.

— Agrippina the Younger

“That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty. To make everything better.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor.

— Rajneesh

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

— Billy Sunday

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

— Vespasian

Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.

— Anonymous

“If I were in his(Prophet Muhammad) presence, I would wash his feet.”

— Hercules

The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late…

— Anonymous

Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was…

— John Keats

I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and…

— Ai Weiwei

The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator,…

— Noam Chomsky

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds…

— William Butler Yeats

I'm not sure whether Jeff Bezos is the greatest thing in the world coming along or if he may be the emperor…

— Julian Robertson

When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little…

— Mark Gatiss

The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by…

— Edward Gibbon

“Sicarius padded toward the exit, his soft black boots silent on the tile floor. He paused in the doorway and glanced at…

— Buroker Lindsey

When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate…

— Edward Gibbon

The free market exists to promote prosperity and human life, and that is what it has accomplished, splendidly, with breathtaking brilliance. In…

— George Reisman

I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this…

— Simon Rich

“It is so usual for the emperor to exchange, alter and take away the lands each man holds every two or three…

— Anonymous

We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence…

— Wei Jingsheng

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

One of the things that I've learned, and I think we've all learned, is that we are not going to get the…

— Barack Obama

We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that…

— Winston Churchill

Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at…

— Garry Kasparov

“We are the Sublime Radiance, the Star of India, and the Sun of Glory," said the emperor, who knew a thing or…

— Salman Rushdie

Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what…

— Haruki Murakami

It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns.…

— John le Carre

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