Emperor Quotes
204 Emperor quotes by 167 unique authors
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Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could not contravene the…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all…
— Thomas Sydenham
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It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just…
— John le Carre
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Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should…
— Osamu Dazai
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I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles…
— Andrew Jackson
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Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods,…
— Mao Zedong
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Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking…
— William Adams
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The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who…
— Julius Evola
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A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable…
— Mark Twain
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In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.
— George Carlin
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You sell your happiness for peanuts! You sell your smile for pennies! I tell you, it's not worth it. The entire world is not worth…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and…
— Emperor Norton
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give…
— Will Durant
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To be spiritual means to be an emperor within yourself. This is the only way to be.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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Not a single bird makes its first leap from a tree without faith, and not a single animal in the jungle begins its day without…
— Suzy Kassem
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Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of…
— Mao Zedong
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There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name…
— Frederic Farrar
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FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor of the world,…
— Christopher Marlowe
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He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece.…
— Brandon Sanderson
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I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the cities in the…
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Christians aren’t making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They’re making a historical one; they’re saying that this thing happened…
— Greg Gilbert
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I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.
— Graham Joyce
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As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and…
— Ernst Toller
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The Imperial Household, as represented by the Emperor, has been praying for the welfare of the people while nurturing harmonious relationship with them. Based on…
— Yoshiko Sakurai
Who Wrote These Emperor Quotes
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