Empire Quotes

599 Empire quotes by 452 unique authors

If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore... — Joseph Brodsky
Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of… — Libba Bray
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. — Alan Moore
As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose.… — Anne Rice
I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy — James Patterson
Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making… — Haruki Murakami
There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men...… — Alan Moore
Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power… — Brandon Sanderson
Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I… — Nora Roberts
I’m not complaining about Romance Being Dead - I’ve just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a canceled Ray Romano… — Mindy Kaling
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest… — Gail Carriger
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to… — Mahatma Gandhi
This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no… — Shane Claiborne
Tea? Good God, no. It's mud. How the British ever built an empire drinking the filthy stuff is beyond me. And if we carry on… — Charlie Higson
He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a… — Gaston Leroux
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of… — Louis L'Amour
Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe… — Mahatma Gandhi
But Hale didn't follow. For a second he just stood and stared out over his empire. It was like he was lost in a dream… — Ally Carter
[Luke, holding stormtrooper helmet.] Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not,/ yet have I taken both uniform and life/ From thee. What manner of a… — Ian Doescher
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years,… — Winston Churchill
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of… — Conrad Veidt
This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers,… — John Milton
Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under… — Richard Dawkins
Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones. — Herbert Kaufman

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