Emperor Quotes

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.

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

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

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

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

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!

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

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

Follow the road behind the Emperor. We must build the world for Japan's sake, heaven ordered Japan to achieve this great mission.

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

In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part

There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.

In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.

Comedians are the one who have to tell the emperor he has no clothes on.

No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.

The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!

Let your throat-song be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length suppliant, at the door.

The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.

While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.

[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.

The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

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.

Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

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.

I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.

Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.

The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.

When I'm wrong I'm like the Emperor on the Death Star thinking he'll turn Luke. Yet, when I'm right I'm a Jedi like my father before me.

I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world; and yet they charge me with wanting to be a king.

Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

But the Emperor has nothing at all on!

The Emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and offer the Way.

The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

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!