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Quotes About Empress

The Fool Whereabouts unknown My eyes flashed open. The Empress's screams had awakened the dark in me. Reverse, perverse. The Dark Calling. Her smile was broken. It was time. I always know best.
~ Kresley Cole
For the best . . . —You're not ready, Empress. The machines won't end without Death.— Yet another decoder-ring statement. My head started hurting as I tried to make sense of his words. I'm almost afraid to ask. —You sail on weeks of lull, then the storm. The game begins in earnest. You must be ready to strike. . . .—
~ Kresley Cole
The Empress will follow where you go, she said. So she will, Mat said. As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.
~ Robert Jordan
I'm not ready to fuck an empress just yet
~ Robert Silverberg
Voltaire had exercised the greatest intellectual influence on Catherine, and Diderot was the only one of the major philosophes she actually met, but it was in Friedrich Melchoir Grimm that the empress found a lifelong friend.
~ Robert K. Massie
Every Tuesday by decree of the empress, men would attend dressed as women and women would dance dressed as men.
~ Robert K. Massie
Come, clear thy studious looks awhile, 'Tis arrant treason now To wear that moping brow, When I, thy empress, bid thee smile.
~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
Having people like that in your service degrades such service, when they are going around the world like beggars." Such was the advice from her Majesty, Empress of the German Empire, on the subject of hiring Wolfgang Mozart.
~ Robert Spaethling
A poem of his own in honor of the late empress formed, unbidden, in his brain. A Degtiar empress named Lisbet Trapped a satrap lord neatly in his net. Enticed into treason For all the wrong reasons, He'll soon have a crash with his kismet. He choked down a genuinely horrible impulse to bounce down to the center of the dell and declaim his poetic offering to the assembled haut multitude, just to see what would happen. Mia
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
A Degtiar empress named Lisbet Trapped a satrap lord neatly in his net. Enticed into treason For all the wrong reasons, He'll soon have a crash with his kismet.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
In his discussion of the trumps, Crowley goes so far as to identify three cards with the alchemical elements: the Magus is mercury, the Empress is salt, and the Emperor is sulfur.
~ Lon Milo DuQuette
I wear my headwrap because because a headwrap is a crown, and I am a queen. [—Erykah Badu]
~ Joel McIver
and wanted to replace Tiberius with Agrippa, and that Livia acted to defeat him.
~ Anthony Everitt
Now that Livia had become Julia Augusta, she had an official constitutional position
~ Anthony Everitt
Livia died in A.D. 29 at the considerable age of eighty-six.
~ Anthony Everitt
There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.
~ Anchee Min
This time the Empress was supposed to have asked the celebrated healer and pretender to miraculous powers, John Joseph Gassner: "Will my daughter be happy?" His reply was suitably gnomic: "There are crosses for all shoulders." 3
~ Antonia Fraser
I had rather live in a cottage with you than reign empress of all the world without you.
~ Anne Somerset
for he of all men knew how dangerously stubborn Henry Fitz Empress could be. There were faint bloodstains upon the tiles in Canterbury Cathedral testifying to that.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
I am a lady-in-waiting, and she is the princess. No, the empress. The empress of the world.
~ Sara Ryan
The picture that emerged from Mildred's entries was of a pretty, charming, willful child who was accustomed to get her own way with the confidence of an empress.
~ Sarah Monette
There are several accounts, written or deposed, by the guards, executioners and inhumers of the Romanovs. One of the inhumers said that he could 'die in peace because he had squeezed the Empress's -----.'* *Pipes's note reads: 'Deposition by P. V. Kukhtenko in Solokov Dossier I, dated September 8, 1918; omission in the original.
~ Martin Amis
Pacific Coast and Vancouver Island's Empress, a stately hotel that held its surroundings like a grand, decorated cake above the seawater in which the island seemed to float.
~ Gregg Olsen
The role of Empress became a full-time occupation.
~ Shan Sa