Emperor Quotes

Emperor Quote of the day

I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

With Free minds all are to worship their Gods.

Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

Now that the Emperor has accepted the Potsdam Declaration, we must lay down our arms. Obeying the Emperor's order, we shall not fight. We must keep peace and order and we shall not make any trouble.

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 marry.

I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.

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

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher.

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.

The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.

If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor.

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.

Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.

We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.