Quote by Shashi Tharoor

“Not sneering Emperors with world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts…

— Joe Abercrombie

“The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all the…

— Andrew Lang

“Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. ”

— Isaac Asimov

“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it…

— Edward W. Said

“An empire that could have stood sound under a single sovereign was wrecked through being run by sundry rulers.”

— Andrew Chugg

“fallen empires of kings, dictators, and fools who were passionate, certain, and wrong.”

— Bobby Adair

“Something he had heard some wise man say. About the three stages of empire, the three generations. First came the conquerers, unstoppable in war.…

— Glen Cook

“The Empire is all those who live within its borders, from the nobles to the lowest servant, even the slaves who work the fields.…

— Raymond E. Feist

“The foundations of Empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.”

— Robert Harris

“She had conquered them, as she would conquer so many in the years to come, by goodness rather than strength. It is a sorrowfully…

— William Napier

“that there existed no earthly empire so great or overweening that it might not one day be dashed to pieces”

— Tom Holland

“As once, when the armies of the empire were shattered and the strong barbarians poured in upon the soft provincials, so now the fierce…

— George R. Stewart