Emperor Quote by Hans Christian Andersen

In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The…

— Murasaki Shikibu

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that…

— Anonymous

It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]

— Vespasian

I feel like an emperor only when I'm writing.

— Balachandra Menon

“That valiant Macedonian supreme commander and emperor Alexander, in his thirties and the future Indian captain-general and emperor Chandragupta just on the threshold of…

— Savarkar

When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest…

— Saint Augustine

“An emperor walks with his court through many fields of roses until they come to a barren spot. There he sees one rose. "It's…

— Kathleen Flinn

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose…

— Anonymous

Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In…

— John Keats

“Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place”

— Joanne Harris

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally…

— Henry David Thoreau

Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the…

— Ben Stein