Emperor Quotes

204 Emperor quotes by 167 unique authors

In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each… — Melissa Joan Hart
When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have… — Kenny Everett
It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that,… — Camille Claudel
But the Emperor has nothing at all on! — Hans Christian Andersen
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that… — Reuben Archer Torrey
Those who see what's obvious aren't necessarily brighter than others. They're just more likely to observe that the emperor is naked. Like children, they see… — Richard Farson
This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the… — Unknown Author
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian… — Gore Vidal
If brains have brought us to what we are in now, I think it is time to allow our hearts to speak. When our sons… — Rosika Schwimmer
Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three… — Alistair Cooke
I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor. — Jack Kingston
James Brown opened at least six of our House of Blues clubs. He always delivered, but he demanded the respect of an emperor. But, come… — Dan Aykroyd
Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt. — Ayn Rand
Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put… — Martin Luther
Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known. — John Wycliffe
Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of… — Paul Farmer
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone… — Niles Eldredge
As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's… — Kit Williams
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang. — William Butler Yeats
When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and… — Laozi
On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like the poison the… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
The Emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle! — James Finn Garner
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. — Edwin Arnold
What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who… — Saint Augustine

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