The Empire Quotes
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
— Charles De Gaulle
A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
If Shankly was the Anfield foreman, Paisley was the brickie, ready to build an empire with his own hands.
— Tommy Smith
Now it would not be the geography of Empire that would make him, it would be the architecture of war.
— Kate Atkinson
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.
— Jared Diamond
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
— Baron De Montesquieu
It's what I am, and if you want excuses, come and take them.
— Mark Lawrence
The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire.
— Alice Hoffman
The Church was spread throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written.
— Fulton J. Sheen
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.
— Winston Churchill
An empire built on blood and fire. The Valyrians reaped the seed they had sown.
— George R R Martin
If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.
— Baruch Spinoza
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?
— William Cobbett
The empire of custom is most mighty.
— Publilius Syrus
Building an empire ... one letter in front of the other.
— Coco J. Ginger
The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
— Louis XVIII Of France
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
— Julie Burchill
Perhaps, Kublai thought, the empire is nothing but a zodiac of the mind's phantasms.
— Italo Calvino
We are not here to build our empire only but also to help people discover the kingdom of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Cioran, bureaucratic heart of the Empire. Or if not heart, kidney. Maybe small bowel.
— James S.A. Corey
In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
You're the empire I'd protect. You're my reason for serving. I want you above all else. You're my freedom.
— Sarah Noffke
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.
— Francois Fenelon
Walt Disney: An American Original, "a man gave birth to a mouse. The mouse built the man an empire.
— Jeffrey Barnes
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[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.
— Neil MacGregor
The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.
— William Wordsworth
Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!!
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.
— Nick Hornby
The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.
— Chalmers Johnson
If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.
— Pat Buchanan
When she saw the opportunity to flee, she would take it. She would bring the hounds of the empire howling down on this city.
— Marie Rutkoski
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
— John Oliver
Sometime, it's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.
— Mark Lawrence
THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED.
— Gavin G. Smith
In the end though, everybody dies, but not everybody lives - the climber, though he may die young, will have lived.
— Mark Lawrence
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore ...
— Joseph Brodsky
There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.
— Kevin J. Anderson
Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage.
— Daniel Wallace
Many men do not look their part. Wisdom may wait behind a foolish smile, bravery can gaze from eyes that cry fright.
— Mark Lawrence
America was not willing to chop down the Empire on October 26, 1774, but it was gripping the ax.
— C.L. Gammon
The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
— Walter Scott
I've never taken a woman on a beach," - Rowan Whitethorn
— Sarah J. Maas
Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.
— Robert Benchley
Through the international hotel empire, the Hilton name has become synonymous with class and sophistication.
— Jerry Oppenheimer
All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.
— Luke Montgomery
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
— Winston Churchill
The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.
— Andrew Cuomo
Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.
— Pat Buchanan
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[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.
— Edward Gibbon
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.
— Joseph Jacobs
Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.
— Hugo Chavez
Concentrate ... for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.
— Orison Swett Marden
I would shake the world until its teeth rattled if that was required to have it spit out an answer.
— Mark Lawrence
The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire.
— Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
— Tony Benn
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.
— Thomas Hutchinson
The empire long united must divide, long divided must unite; this is how it has always been.
— Luo Guanzhong
A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.
— James A. Garfield
Vision, of the Ittihadists and, by extension, Kemal Ataturk, did not include the non-Muslim population of what was once the Ottoman Empire.
— Eric Bogosian
Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.
— Bias Of Priene
War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.
— Mark Lawrence
man is the only animal that is clever enough to build the empire state building and stupid enough to jump off.
— Rock Hudson
Of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, The African Origins of Civilization
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
People who talk about the weather would be better served by admitting they've nothing to say but like the sound of their own voice.
— Mark Lawrence
For the greatest part of humanity and the longest periods of history, empire has been the typical mode of government.
— Henry Kissinger
Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
— Albert Camus
Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world.
— Mark Lawrence
The perfumes of lords and ladies tickled at my nose: lavender and orange oil. On the road, shit has the decency to stink.
— Mark Lawrence
