Quotes About Emperor

He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a distraction, a false trail. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow, clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

When the sword of the tongue is drawn, the emperor thought, it inflicts deeper cuts than the sharpest blade.

Never make love to a woman who is bad with stained glass," the emperor said solemnly, giving no indication of humorous intent. "Such a woman is an ignorant shrew.

Without water we are nothing, the traveler thought. Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.

I have never heard a lady say 'arse,' the emperor said mildly. I haven't been a lady for long, I reminded him. A little demon–made of exhaustion and the emperors smile– pushed me into adding,For five years I've been saying 'arse.' It's hard to stop saying 'arse' after that many years. I suppose I should stop saying 'arse,' since ladies don't say- 'Arse', he finished for me. I met his grin.

The Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II (401–450) ordered that a great church be constructed in Myra, and it became known as the Church of St. Nicholas.

The ancient writer Suetonius tells the story that an inventor around 70 CE displayed to a Roman emperor a machine that could move columns, only to be dismissed with the objection that such labor-saving devices would cause the poor to starve by robbing them of employment.

Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.

Caesar did not arrive until about eleven o'clock in the morning

Caesar was cremated on the spot.

offered his life for his son's, and was executed. The son then committed suicide. Octavian watched them both die.

Augustus' signet ring was removed from his finger. His eyes were closed.

Tiberius, being his closest relative, called him by name and said, "Vale," "Farewell.

Augustus' body was laid on a pyre in the ustrinum, or crematorium, next to the mausoleum.

In his official memoir, he notes with satisfaction that he spent 600 million sesterces on land bought in Italy for his veterans

Nor was there much mercy toward Julia: Augustus sent her into exile;

arranged Tiberius' divorce from her without consulting him;

He immediately set out from Rome, but Agrippa was dead when he arrived.

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.

There's something really powerful about comedy. When the little guy, the comedian, punches up towards the big guy, or Trump, exposing him, calling out the emperor for having no clothes, that's really important.

I didn't want to be different. I wanted to be able to laugh But I'm sister to an Emperor who's worshiped as a god. People fear me. I never wanted to be feared. I don't want to be part of history, I just want to be loved . . . and to love.

Some say, Scytale said, that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord.

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.

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