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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

My brother comes now," Alia said. "Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him. — Frank Herbert

Mmph! Mmph. Translation: The Emperor will have your heads for this. — Chuck Wendig

Being prisoner great shame. Great! Redeem honour building railway for Emperor. Great honour. Great! — Richard Flanagan

Aldrik - the crown prince, the future Emperor, Fire Lord, ruler of the Black Legion, sorcerer - was only a man. And men could be broken. — Elise Kova

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

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

Admiral, the...the Emperor would like to speak with you." The air in the room seemed to drop ten degrees. — Christian Kallias

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

Emperor Erishi had let his bladder go. The guards dropped their swords. — Ken Liu

They have no tsar in America - no emperor or king of any kind. The army can't just shoot anyone they like. The people rule the country!" She — Ken Follett

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

If this were a novel, you'd have to start a new chapter as soon as I appeared. — Jasper Fforde

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

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

represented the emperor's presence and power, so anyone who possessed it other — Mingmei Yip

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

Eat like an emperor. That does not depend on the quality of the food, it depends on the eater, the way he celebrates it. — Osho

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

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

But that one single soul was emperor of the universe, no less than each of us. — Michael Frayn

Great ambition without contribution is without significance.
The Emperor's Club — Steve William Laible

But the Emperor has nothing at all on! — Hans Christian Andersen

The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church. — Ambrose

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

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

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

Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt. — Ayn Rand

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

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

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry. — David Tang

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

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

An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides. The — Frank Herbert

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

[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage. — Edward Gibbon

Is there anything more worthless than excuses?
-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

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States. — Barack Obama

Once more the drama begins.' - The Emperor Paul Muad'dib on his ascension to the Lion Throne. — Frank Herbert

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

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, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven. — Shan Sa

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

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it. — Zhuangzi

- what was the point of having an Emperor, if you couldn't cook up spicy rumors about him? — Kate Quinn

The Emergent resides in the people's seats, not the emperor's box. — Nissim Levy

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

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world. — Zhuangzi

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

So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
- IV:22 — Suetonius

The emperor beckons me; he wants me to marry his daughter.
The road to the capital is long and distant; I don't want her. — Yu Hua

Children are our future. We cannot allow them to run amok.
-pg. 167 The Collected Sayings of the Emperor The Demon's Daughter — Emma Holly

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

the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains what happened to Ovid] — David Wishart

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

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