Emperor Quotes

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

American, Rather, Nod

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
Andrew Jackson

Government, Feelings, Cannot

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Jean de La Fontaine

Living, Beggar, Buried

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Friedrich Schiller

Power, Heart, Dictate

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

Her, Against, Word

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.
Neil Gaiman

Children, Point, Clothes

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.
Elizabeth I

May, Son, Though

I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.
Antonio Banderas

Morning, Youth, Read

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
Willa Cather

Girl, Fact, Damaged

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

Ability, Reign, Doubted

For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that's exactly how they've been treated.
Jeffrey Kluger

Children, Parents, Universe

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
Wallace Stevens

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.
Mira Nair

Best, Children, Honesty

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

American, Rather, Box

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
Camille Claudel

People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do.
Paula Cole

Hard, Through, Become

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

Live, Child, Used

The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.
Edward Grey

Run, Cause, German

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.
Melissa Joan Hart

Character, Different, Picture

As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.
Kit Williams

Working, Actually, Feet

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

I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'Netherland' felt the same way. I liked both books a lot but I don't see them as 9/11 novels.
Amy Waldman

Children, Same, Read

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.
Roger Penrose

Mind, Book, Why

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West.
Henri Pirenne

Time, May, Culture

It becomes an emperor to die standing.
Titus Flavius Vespasian

Die, Standing, Becomes

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

Thinking, Start, Speak

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.
William Adams

Good, Lost, Done

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
William Adams

Done, Before, Times

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

Important, Won, Arts

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
Mary Antin

Love, Health, Positive

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