Emperor Quotes

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

  

  Lord Byron
  • American
  • Emperor
  • Snuff-box

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

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

  

  Wilhelm II
  • Germany
  • Emperor
  • Chefs

• The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream
  • Emperor

• Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Death
  • Remembering

• If all this sounds familiar to Christian readers, it should. This man—here, the emperor—is a god whose birthday is to be celebrated because it brought “good tidings” to the world; he is the greatest benefactor of humans, surpassing all others, and is to be considered a “savior.” Jesus was not the only “savior-God” known to the ancient world.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Savior
  • Celebrated
  • Christian Readers

• If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

  

  Martin Luther
  • King
  • Preacher
  • Emperor

• If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Way
  • English
  • Emperor

• 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.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • War
  • Emperor
  • Lost In Time

• 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.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Remain
  • Emperor

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Creatures
  • Fats
  • Worms

• 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.

  

  George Washington
  • World
  • Situation
  • Kings

• I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

  

  Dan Abnett
  • Emperor
  • There
  • Horus

• 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.

  

  Joshua A. Norton
  • Catholic
  • Command
  • Churches

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

  

  Charles V of France
  • Emperor
  • Struck
  • Cannonball

• 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.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Clothes
  • Rejected
  • Emperor

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

  

  William Adams The Black Eyed Peas
  • Years
  • Called
  • Emperor

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

  

  Willa Cather
  • Girl
  • Ambition
  • Emperor

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

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Died
  • Emperor
  • Forsaken

• An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Soldiers
  • Emperor
  • Mercenaries

• 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 The Black Eyed Peas
  • Done
  • Company
  • Captains

• The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Song
  • Night
  • Cathedrals

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

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Emperor
  • Empress

• That's all you get," said Alpharius, and split him in half. Alpharius sheathed his gladius, and dragged the sabre out of his torso. He tossed it away, and walked through the liter of bodies to where Namatjira was kneeling on the deck. "Please! My lord primarch! Please, I beg you!" Namtjira pleaded, his hands making a desperate namaste. Alpharius drew his boltgun. "Why?" shrieked Namatjira. "Why are you doing this? "For the Emperor," said Alpharius, and pulled the trigger.

  

  Dan Abnett
  • Body
  • Lord
  • Desperate

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