Quotes About Sultan

Como el sultán no tiene miedo de la Muerte, sale a su vez y echa a caminar y detrás del rosal encuentra a la Muerte y le dice: "¿Por qué le hiciste un gesto de amenaza a mi jardinero a quien yo tanto quiero?". Y la Muerte le contesta: "No hice un gesto de amenaza, hice un gesto de sorpresa al verlo porque tengo que encontrarlo esta noche en Samarcanda".

Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.

Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453.

I don't give a damn if you were the featured date du jour of the sultan of Brunei. Get it through your head: You're here under duress,my duress, and the second I can get you across the river, the better I'll like it. Even if Winkie wants me? Who the hell is Winkie? In answer, her gaze traveled to his crotch. Woman, Jake roared, beyond insane, do you have a death wish? Get in that bed, pull the covers over your head, and go to sleep before I do something we'll both regret.

In 1515 a decree of Sultan Selim I had threatened with death anyone found using the printing press.36 This failure to reconcile Islam with scientific progress was to prove disastrous. Having once provided European scholars with ideas and inspiration, Muslim scientists were now cut off from the latest research. If the Scientific Revolution was generated by a network, then the Ottoman Empire was effectively offline.

Style can't be denied, Lemon. That's the difference between you and me: you a slave to fashion and I'm a sultan of style.

The government here is entirely in the hands of the army. The Grand Signor [Ottoman Sultan], with all his absolute power, is as much a slave as any of his subjects, and trembles at a janissary's frown.

When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan, Even before he gets so far As the place where the clustered palm-trees are, At the last of the thirty palace-gates The pet of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom, Orders a feast in his favorite room-- Glittering square of colored ice, Sweetened with syrup, tinctured with spice, Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates, Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces, Limes and citrons and apricots, And wines that are known to Eastern princes.

I don't want to have lunch with a sultan. I would rather watch Netflix.

Those who today explore the curious ramifications of the Sultan's Palace at Istanbul may fancy, not without reason, that they see the only reflection left on earth of the once crowded Roman Palatine.

The people of Mali] are seldom unjust, and have a greater horror of injustices than other people. Their sultan shows no mercy to anyone who is guilty of the least act of it. There is complete security in their country. Neither traveller nor inhabitant in it has anything to fear from robbers or men of violence. —Ibn Battuta, fourteenth-century traveler

the Despot is Master only as long as he is the strongest, and as soon as he can be driven out he cannot protest against violence. The uprising that ends by strangling or dethroning a Sultan is as Lawful an act as those by which he disposed, the day before, of the lives and goods of his Subjects.

Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen.

The Sultan's wife must never remain without books that please her: a clause in the marriage contract is involved, a condition the bride imposed on her august suitor before agreeing to the wedding....

I felt cheated and I decided to demand justice of the sultan.

So many stories were told about him: that he had held important positions—grand dignitary of the sultan, hydraulic engineer to the diwan, or others like that

Women do not count," said the Sultan. "Therefore, it is impossible to be unfair to them.