Empires Quotes · Page 5

Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

— Thomas de Quincey

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

— Jared Diamond

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

— Niall Ferguson

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

— Milan Kundera

Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

— Joni Mitchell

New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

— Walter Tevis

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

— Robert Benchley

My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow;

— Andrew Marvell

Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow…

— Vincent Price

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or…

— Anna Leonowens

The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be…

— Wellington Webb

I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was…

— Max Walker

First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He…

— Baron Vaughn

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education…

— Aristotle

The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

— Isoroku Yamamoto

Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab…

— Anonymous

“Almost all empires were created by force, but none can be sustained by it. Universal rule, to last, needs to translate force…

— Henry Kissinger

I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most…

— Marquis de Custine

Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous…

— Ken Dodd

One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo…

— Viggo Mortensen

Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention…

— Robert Bly

Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to…

— Horace Mann

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though,…

— Haruki Murakami

Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It…

— Brandon Sanderson

Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of…

— Isabelle Eberhardt

Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several…

— Plato

We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget…

— Chittaranjan Das

Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of…

— Ruth Hurmence Green

In fact, when the fires of empire get hidden, they still stay burning underneath the moss, seething away. This is true with…

— Robert Wyatt

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

— Alan Moore

“I've toppled empires. I can figure out how to get water to the right temperature.”

— S.E. Anderson

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

— John Lothrop Motley

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

— Karl Marx

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

— Michel de Montaigne

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

— John Boyd Orr

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

— Edward Gibbon

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.

— Thucydides