Top 322 Emperor Quotes & Sayings

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

Now that the Emperor has accepted the Potsdam Declaration, we must lay down our arms. Obeying the Emperor's order, we shall not fight. We must keep peace and order and we shall not make any trouble.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.

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

An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

The Imperial Household, as represented by the Emperor, has been praying for the welfare of the people while nurturing harmonious relationship with them. Based on the people's respect and adoration for the Emperor, the Japanese people have stayed united. That is the essence of Japan's national heritage, I believe.

In the new Georgia, Stalin is no longer Georgian. He's a Russian emperor.

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

I'm just as much into Emperor as I am Alice Cooper.

In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand eunuch servants at his command. "What happens when you do wrong?" his brother asks. "When I do wrong, someone else is punished," the boy emperor replies. To demonstrate, he breaks a jar, and one of the servants is beaten. In Christian theology, Jesus reversed that ancient pattern: when the servants erred, the King was punished. Grace is free only because the giver himself has borned the cost.

'Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk,' that's my big Emperor album.

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

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

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.

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

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

Rastafari is our king or emperor, and being a king, being an emperor you've been taught all the ways of the ancestors. With the knowledge and teachings and studying his majesty, I've learned to put all these principles and precepts into the music, so that is how it inspires me to be singin' good songs and makin' good music for the people. Natural.

I feel like an emperor only when I'm writing.

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

The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics for the moral order that their self-respect would not let them tolerate.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.

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

Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars.

A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds in bloom. The grower selected one magnificent specimen, then cut down all the others, leaving this one perfect flower. The emperor arrived and sat for several hours quietly gazing at this beautiful flower, letting its beauty have its way with him. Can you imagine being so caught up in appreciation of one flower that everything else fades into the background?

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

FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor of the world, And make a bridge thorough the moving air, To pass the ocean with a band of men; I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown: The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, Nor any potentate of Germany. Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd, I'll live in speculation of this art, Till Mephistophilis return again.

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

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

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes

The Emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

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

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

Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic.

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

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

Ultimately, I would love to do 'The Emperor of Ocean Park' by Stephen Carter.

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.

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.

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

I'm not the grand poobah. I'm not the emperor. That's not what I want to be.

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

It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.

In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies.

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

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.

No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.

At times, Mario Cuomo seemed to have the humility of a Jesuit and the goals of an emperor.

The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.

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

But the Emperor has nothing at all on!

To be spiritual means to be an emperor within yourself. This is the only way to be.