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I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.
— Patricia McConnell
I discovered freedom for the first time in England.
— Emperor Hirohito
Being prisoner great shame. Great! Redeem honour building railway for Emperor. Great honour. Great!
— Richard Flanagan
Some people are slow to do what they promise; you are slow to promise what you have already done.
— Suetonius
In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.
— George Carlin
An army, like a serpent, travels on its belly.
— Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Mexico doesn't have an emperor." "That is Mexico's misfortune, for all of the greatest countries have emperors.
— Daniel Polansky
They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's.
— Katlyn Charlesworth
No matter how the wind howls. The mountain cannot bow to it.
— Walt Disney Company
They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.
— Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
At times, Mario Cuomo seemed to have the humility of a Jesuit and the goals of an emperor.
— Mike Barnicle
No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand [television].
— Fred W. Friendly
Admiral, the...the Emperor would like to speak with you." The air in the room seemed to drop ten degrees.
— Christian Kallias
Servitude of any sort is distasteful to all men, but especially objectionable is subjection to others in the case of those who ought to rule.
— Ulrich Von Hutten
When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher.
— Kenny Everett
Look! The emperor has no clothes!
— Some Kid
It is your attitude, and the suspicion that you are maturing the boldest designs against him, that imposes on your enemy.
— Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
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.
— William Butler Yeats
A soldier who serves an emperor has to have a uniform, and this also applies to a soldier who serves the Almighty.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
It's impossible to tell what's going on at any given moment in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; it's even harder to care about being able to tell.
— Stephanie Zacharek
It becomes an emperor to die standing.
— Titus Flavius Vespasian
Nothing makes sense in Rome.
— Katlyn Charlesworth
Without supplies no army is brave.
— Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.
— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
— Jack Kingston
I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.
— Graham Joyce
You are capable of explaining everything you feel. Why don't you go to the Emperor and talk to him?
— Paulo Coelho
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
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
— Wallace Stevens
Great ambition without contribution is without significance.
The Emperor's Club — Steve William Laible
The Emperor's Club — Steve William Laible
But the Emperor has nothing at all on!
— Hans Christian Andersen
Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
— John Wycliffe
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. — William Shakespeare
...
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips
That I revived and was an emperor. — William Shakespeare
To predict tomorrow's weather, I need not take into account the state of mind of the Emperor of Manchukuo.
— A.J. Ayer
The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.
— Mason Cooley
The Emperor tells us that civilization will only achieve perfection when the last stone of the last church falls upon the last priest.
— Graham McNeill
Are you certain of these accusations?" "I would stake my life on them, my lord Emperor." "You already have.
— Drew Karpyshyn
In the kingdom of the blind, one eyed is the king; in the kingdom of the sighted, make-believe is the emperor!
— Rajesh D. Mudholkar
It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?
— Idries Shah
The Emperor wishes me to send my innocent little lamb to the slaughter. No. Instead, I'll send him my anaconda.
— S.J. Kincaid
If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
— Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston - The Last Emperor
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.
— Boris Johnson
An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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.
— Colm Keaveney
One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings
— Timothy Zahn
It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.
— Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
other words, if you want to know the truth about the emperor's clothes, don't ask the tailors.
— Judith Rich Harris
I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
You see, Count, I have the Emperor's prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me. The
— Frank Herbert
Is there anything more worthless than excuses?
-Emperor Kellanved — Steven Erikson
-Emperor Kellanved — Steven Erikson
[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
Once more the drama begins.' - The Emperor Paul Muad'dib on his ascension to the Lion Throne.
— Frank Herbert
Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage.
— Daniel Wallace
So, so sorry. Really sorry. Master. Sir. Emperor of the world. God of the universe.
— Cherise Sinclair
Day and night, their fail and crippled ships defy the tempest.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I make war on the living, not the dead.
— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
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.
— Robert Graves
- what was the point of having an Emperor, if you couldn't cook up spicy rumors about him?
— Kate Quinn
I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.
— Marcel Carne
You either have a useful contribution to make or you don't, regardless of whether you're head of the office or the emperor of China.
— David Lagercrantz
The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great
— Dan Brown
Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.
— Henry David Thoreau
No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.
— Agrippina The Younger
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
— Bao Dai
It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.
— Ernest Bramah
On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the emperor of Japan.
— Tan Twan Eng
Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.
— Apsley Cherry-Garrard