42 Emperor Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Would Ability Never Had No-One He Emperor Been His Doubted Reign

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

Marie-Antoinette was born in 1755, the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Emperor Francis I. She was intelligent and artistic but devoid of the ambition or calculation required to survive in the fetid atmosphere of the French court. In many ways, her character was not unlike that of Mary, Queen of Scots. Amanda Foreman

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We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the barefooted child and the doting mother are afforded a holistic environment to realise their dreams and ambitions. Anthony Carmona

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

Citizen Country Enslaved Independent Would Rather Emperor Than Prefer

When the audience reacts all together, it's genius. The audience is its own being in a way. It's a weird, amorphous beast that is also somehow a golden emperor that is also somehow every adult you've ever come across in your life who doesn't approve of you - all in one place. Baron Vaughn

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

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

Me Struck Emperor Name Who Ever

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

People Word Understanding Side Emperor His Artist Against Should Her

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write. Chinua Achebe

The Strauss allowed me to be a writer. Without it, 'The Emperor's Children' would not exist. When I received the award, I was teaching, had one baby, and was pregnant with another. There was no time for writing. Claire Messud

Time Me Writing Baby Would No Time Writer Had Allowed Emperor Another Without Exist Children Pregnant Teaching Award Received

A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes. Damon Lindelof

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

Day Me Cause Will Rudder Run Some Something Steam He Catastrophe Emperor Like Up German Going Ageing

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

The ancient Greeks and Romans were comfortable with any number of deities and were quite open to allowing conquered nations to continue to worship in whatever ways they saw fit, as long as they didn't mind having an emperor who required taxes and tributes. Jay Parini

Mind Long Whatever Saw Worship Ways Ancient Ancient Greeks Having Open Allowing Emperor Comfortable Were Continue Fit Greeks Any Quite Nations Romans Taxes Required Who Conquered Number

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

Generation Entitled Parents Sit Believe Universe Exactly Emperor Known Because How Been Years Children Center Chinese Little Social Teachers Who Now Treated Pampered Phenomenon

I've never thought of it consciously... I say exactly what I think, and very often it's totally politically incorrect. I get, always, chastised for it. So it's not shtick. But I think I'm the one who says, 'The emperor has no clothes.' Joan Rivers

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In politics, my role model would be a very weird one - our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn't ask much for himself. He was ousted from power, and he lived with the help of friends in Paris. Joaquim Barbosa

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

Alice Alice Cooper Emperor Am Just Just As Much Much Cooper

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

Church First Year Took Emperor Persecution Sixth Rome Place

Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it even as we got the film out. The coverage destroyed the emperor's credibility. Jonathan Dimbleby

Heart First Destroyed Out Emperor Terrible Because Got Were Coverage Heard Denying Famine Ethiopia Even Engraved Film Credibility

The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots. Joshua A. Norton

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