Top 360 Emperor Constantine Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The New York Times' coverage of Trump's taxes is an emperor-has-no-clothes moment.

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

I like monsters, and when the monster is a superhero, it's a byproduct. Like Hellboy, the Hulk, Man-Thing, Swamp Thing, Sandman, Constantine, Demon, Dr. Strange, Spectre, Deadman. Those are the superheroes I followed as a kid religiously.

Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.

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

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

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

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

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

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

Does anyone know... does the Christian persecution complex have an expiration date? Because... uh... you've all been in charge pretty much since... uh... what was that guys name... Constantine. He converted in, what was it, 312 A.D. I'm just saying, enjoy your success.

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

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

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

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

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these prodigies of conversion and marvelous holiness if they had not changed the flames of human passion into volcanoes of immense love of God.

I'm against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty the Emperor.

Constantine 'Costa' Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.

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

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.

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

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

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

An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.

In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.

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

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

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

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

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

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

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

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

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

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

A young girl is possessed by a devil, and Constantine shouts, 'I need a mirror! Now! At least three feet high!' He can capture the demon in the mirror and throw it out the window, see, although you wonder why supernatural beings would have such low-tech security holes.

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

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

No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.

I'm not sure whether Jeff Bezos is the greatest thing in the world coming along or if he may be the emperor with no clothes.

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.

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

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

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

One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers in that period – the centuries that is, before Constantine, and two after, determine the boundary of our faith.

It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I'd look like Eddie Constantine.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

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

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

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

The DCU Constantine has to be the guy we know and love, with his same failings - otherwise what's the point of using him? But as I'm writing him, he's younger and has perhaps been through a bit less than the battered, aging old sod we meet in Vertigo.

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.

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

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.