Quotes About Emperor

As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.

Even here, even now, one did not joke about the Emperor.

It was Buddhist and Shinto priests who were recruiting and training the suicide bombers, or Kamikaze (Divine Wind), fanatics, assuring them the emperor was a Golden Wheel-Turning Sacred King, one indeed of the four manifestations of the ideal Buddhist monarch and a Tathagata, or fully enlightened being, of the material world.

When the British fleet patrolled the oceans and upheld Imperial Preference, and the King was the Emperor of India, an overfondness for things English could expose the American addict to ridicule and even contempt.

The Emperor decided to make a proclamation to his troops about the importance of compassion in the face of the rising tide of heinous fuckery and political weaselocity in the nearby kingdom of the United States.

The Emperor decided to make a proclamation to the troops about the importance of compassion in the face of the rising tide of heinous fuckery and political weaselocity in the nearby kingdom of the United States.

Ah, Lazarus, said the Emperor, scratching his charge behind the ears, if we had even half the courage of our small comrade, we would go into that drain and find him. But what are we without him, our courage, our valor? Steady and righteous we may be, my friend, but without courage to risk ourselves for our brother, we are but politicians - blustering whores to rhetoric.

Splendid," said the Emperor, without a hint of sarcasm. "I believe we've achieved a new level of doomed."   Y

Grazie Frate Guglielmo, l'imperatore ha bisogno di voi, avete visto che bell'anello che ho, arrivederci.

How will I leave his realm, Bizhad wondered, clutching Akbar's order. Had the emperor played a cruel joke on him, condemning him to roam the length and breadth of this world? He would lie awake at night worrying, confer with passing travelers during the day, starting to distrust his driver's motives…

Las almas muertas solo sueñan con la muerte —dijo el resucitador al emperador—. Los sueños insignificantes son para los hombres insginificantes. La vida es la que se expande para llenar los mundos.

oh, good, Pestilence is free," said Karou, heading towards the sculpture. Massive emperor and horse both wore gas masks, like every other statue in the place, and it had always put Karou in mind of the first horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence, sowing plaque with one outstretched arm.

Las almas muertas solo sueñan con la muerte —dijo el resucitador al emperador—. Los sueños insignificantes son para los hombres insignificantes. La vida es la que se expande para llenar los mundos. Es la vida tu dueña, o la muerte.

only the emperor among three hundred millions is allowed to use vermilion ink. Imagine that. If Queen Victoria said, 'From now on, only I am allowed to use vermilion,' as much as we love her, forty thousand Britons would instantly forswear all ink but vermilion. I would mysel'.

The emperor is naked! The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

Every Russian emperor from Peter the Great to Stalin and Putin knows a leader and his security agencies must never be parted. His safety depends on their slavish devotion.

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

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

Trajan became commander of the world's largest army. It was a tradition for any new emperor to kick-start his reign with a little military adventure – and Trajan especially wasn't going to be left out. Kicking ass on the frontiers helped an emperor to stamp his authority on the Empire, built his reputation and kept the army busy. Besides, Trajan took 'delight in war'.19

The Emperor was unreasonably partial to his eldest son; he would have been glad to have had the barons and peers demand Charlot for their only sovereign; but that prince was so infamous, for his falsehood and cruelty, that the council strenuously opposed the Emperor's proposal of abdicating, and implored him to continue to hold a sceptre which he wielded with so much glory.

Mmph! Mmph." Translation: The Emperor will have your heads for this.