Emperor Quotes

204 Emperor quotes by 167 unique authors

They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An Emperor's Bequest to… — Manil Suri
No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only… — Henry Ward Beecher
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed… — Winston Churchill
Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor. — Rajneesh
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and… — Leonardo da Vinci
Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry. — David Tang
I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11… — Amy Waldman
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away… — John Ralston Saul
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. — Chinua Achebe
When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In… — Steve Berry
I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important. — Marcel Carne
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one. — Bao ?ai
Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes — Colin Powell
It becomes an emperor to die standing. — Vespasian
Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him. — Michel de Montaigne
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient… — John Keats
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves. — Margaret Mead
If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw… — Marco Polo
Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time. — Daron Malakian
Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath,… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful! — Napoleon Bonaparte
An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries. — Napoleon Bonaparte
If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship… — Napoleon Bonaparte

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