Quote by Traditional Vietnamese

“The gate is the key to the kingdom.”

— Stephen King

“Its gate, from which at first they issued forth,”

— Lao Tzu

“He is a king whom emperors have served.”

— Robert W. Chambers

“Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.”

— Wallace Stevens

“That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty. To make everything better.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“He would go east and fight the emperor’s wars, carrying out the bloody business of larger countries eating up the littler ones. It wasn’t…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“Through which gate did Jesus tell us to enter?”

— Heidi Kreider

“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

“He had a hear that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a…

— Gaston Laroux

“Building an empire...one letter in front of the other.”

— Coco J. Ginger

“Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. ”

— Isaac Asimov

“Rulers craft stories, the ruled listen.”

— Amogh Swamy