Best 56 quotes in «emperor quotes» category

Fornam jeg legemets søte lyst og begjær mot dette eller hint, så skremte forsagelsens fyrste meg med sitt: Avdø her for å leve hisset.

Light is the world's emperor.

I don’t see that her being cyborg is relevant. - Kai (Lunar Chronicles #2 - Scarlet)

How can this 'I' be said to have any being other than as a pattern of movement in Heaven and Earth's unfolding union.

If I were in his(Prophet Muhammad) presence, I would wash his feet.

The Emperor wishes me to send my innocent little lamb to the slaughter. No. Instead, I'll send him my anaconda.

Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and therefore, not geniuses. One can understand him by thinking of the tremendous intensity with which he tried to escape from himself. There is this element in all the conquerors, great or small. Just because he had great gifts, greater than those of any emperor before him, he had greater difficulty in stifling the disapproving voice within him. The motive of his ambition was the craving to stifle his better self.

Nothing makes sense in Rome.

The emperor is just a man, after all.

I don't wear armor. I don't carry weapons. An emperor needs only his imagination.

Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord.

The wheel of Rome spins constantly. Gods rise and fall, mortals live and die, and round and round we go. We all play a part in that wheel... And I make sure the wheel never stops spinning. You see, if the wheel stops, balance is lost.

They think they are invincible. But, the truth is, Nova––gods fall just as hard as mortals. The only difference is... gods do not see the fall coming until it is too late.

They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's.

While many find the new clothes of the emperor magnificent, some dare to say out loud, he is simply naked. If the clear sighted are constrained by the credulous and when the “followers” are browbeating the "knowers", the cat is among the pigeons and the age of obscuration is under way. Obviously "something wicked this way comes…" ("His master's voice" )

Underlings should always be uncomfortable in the presence of their superiors," said the Emperor. "Don't you agree?

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.

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire." "And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

Yes, my eyes are closed to your light. I am a beast, a nigger. But I can be saved. You are sham niggers, you, maniacs, fiends, misers. Merchant, you are a nigger; Judge, you are a nigger; General, you are a nigger; Emperor, old itch, you are a nigger: you have drank of the untaxed liquor of Satan’s still.

You don't need to work hard to earn an empire; there is an army of slaves to do it for you.

Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

Emperors are vain and useless things.

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.

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position!

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.

If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.

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

I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.

I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

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

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

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

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

Lee Marvin was just the best. Just the best. And that was the beginning of a friendship that lasted until he died. And the same with Ernie Borgnine. You know, I went up there and did that movie [Emperor Of The North] with those guys, and I actually was with Ernie the night that he died.

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

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

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

The Emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

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

When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.

A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.