Empire Quotes · Page 2

I have my fashion empire to build.

— Ozwald Boateng

All for Australia and the Empire.

— Joseph Lyons

“Crowns are hourly tumbling.”

— A. H. Septimius

“The Empire must fall.”

— Chuck Wendig

Empire breeds terrorism.

— Pat Buchanan

Every empire eventually falls.

— Michael Douglas

Empire and liberty.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Naughty business, this Empire.”

— Chuck Wendig

“Better our evil empire than theirs.”

— Peter Fehervari

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

“Empire State's orange shoulders lifted above the Hell”

— Allen Ginsberg

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

— Publilius Syrus

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

— Woodrow Wilson

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

— Walter Scott

“America's over. Get out while you still can.”

— J.M. Porup

“Building an empire...one letter in front of the other.”

— Coco J. Ginger

Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that…

— Ryan Bingham

Being a part of 'Empire' was a wonderful experience and opportunity to work with everyone involved.

— Malik Yoba

There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the 'history of the British empire.'

— Linda Colley

“In the end, when all the trappings of empire are stripped away, it is every man for himself. 1528”

— Panfilo de Navaez

“Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.”

— Carlos Fuentes

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

— Robert Kiyosaki

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

— Albert Camus

The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was,…

— Malcolm X

I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the…

— Benedict Wong

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud,…

— John Perkins

I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call…

— Lamar Alexander

Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is…

— Stephen Kinzer

“Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged…

— J.M. Coetzee

I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which…

— Alice Oswald

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It…

— Antony Sher

Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high…

— James Berardinelli

“As the map of the Great Plain was being redrawn by a young Shazarian councillor, the ageing Shylonian king interrupted mid-speech to…

— A. H. Septimius

American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward…

— Niall Ferguson

I was just in a few episodes the first season [ of Empire]. They didn't kill me, but I haven't been back…

— Judd Nelson

“In a 2016 essay, the writer and former soldier Roy Scranton describes watching Star Wars while stationed in Baghdad. He is forced…

— Omar El Akkad

It's the start of the end Surrender the throne The blood on my hands covered the holes We've been surrounded by vicious…

— Bring Me The Horizon

My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history…

— Natasha Trethewey

“Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when…

— M.H. Hyndman