Emperor Quotes
204 Emperor quotes by 167 unique authors
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The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Once upon a time humans faced each other and pulled thoughts from minds, advanced rapidly, revolutionised industry and evolved explosively. Then one day they stopped,…
— Craig Stone
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At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he…
— Gore Vidal
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We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University,…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
— Khalil Gibran
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to…
— Elizabeth I
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
— Rudyard Kipling
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Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment.…
— Eric Liu
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I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see…
— Mira Nair
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Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
— Guru Nanak
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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and…
— Horatio Nelson
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
— Yoko Ono
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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
— Friedrich Schiller
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
— Wallace Stevens
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
— Tacitus
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The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by…
— Edward Gibbon
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You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest…
— C.S. Lewis
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During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against…
— Max Brooks
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The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.
— Neil Gaiman
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat…
— Blaise Pascal
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war…
— Michel de Montaigne
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One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized then, with an…
— Roland Barthes
Who Wrote These Emperor Quotes
167 authors contributed a total of 204 Emperor Quotes, led by these top contributors: