Emperor quotes
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Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
-- Alfred de Musset -
The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.
-- Ambrose -
Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
-- Charles V of France -
Comedians are the one who have to tell the emperor he has no clothes on.
-- Chris Rock -
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Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.
-- Clark Ashton Smith -
I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor
-- Dan Abnett -
Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.
-- David Tang -
A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!
-- Frank Herbert -
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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
-- George Washington -
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!
-- Graham Chapman -
But the Emperor has nothing at all on!
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
-- Jack Kingston -
The Emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!
-- James Finn Garner -
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.
-- Josephine de Beauharnais -
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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.
-- Mengistu Haile Mariam -
I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.
-- Philip Massinger -
Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic.
-- Rupert Murdoch -
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
-- Tacitus -
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It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]
-- Vespasian -
It becomes an emperor to die standing.
-- Vespasian -
How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
-- Walid Jumblatt -
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
-- Wallace Stevens -
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I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
-- Sigismund, Holy Roman 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.
-- Keith Carradine
