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My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country. -- Wolfman Jack
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it. -- Andrew Jackson
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. -- Jean de La Fontaine
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. -- Wallace Stevens
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart. -- Friedrich Schiller
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor. -- Tacitus
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. -- Willa Cather
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one. -- Bao Dai
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one. -- Bao Dai
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. -- John Foxe
Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry. -- David Tang
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy. -- Yoko Ono
Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry. -- Elizabeth I
It's impossible to tell what's going on at any given moment in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; it's even harder to care about being able to tell. -- Stephanie Zacharek
Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer. -- Ben Stein
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races. -- Emperor Hirohito
It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee. -- Camille Claudel
I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web. -- Antonio Banderas
I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty. -- Mira Nair
We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. -- Joshua A. Norton
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races. -- Emperor Hirohito
On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church. -- Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's. -- Mary Cantwell
But the Emperor has nothing at all on! -- Hans Christian Andersen
The Emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle! -- James Finn Garner
An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor -- Dan Abnett
A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you! -- Frank Herbert
The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China. -- Mason Cooley
Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him. -- Michel de Montaigne
The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist. -- Mason Cooley
The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great -- Dan Brown
The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful! -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin. -- Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt. -- Ayn Rand
Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin. -- Apsley Cherry-Garrard
I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end. -- Qin Shi Huang
The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong. -- William Butler Yeats
Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. -- Chinua Achebe
Follow the road behind the Emperor. We must build the world for Japan's sake, heaven ordered Japan to achieve this great mission. -- Kingoro Hashimoto
I was thinking, "So, I'm Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. -- Robert Graves
[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long. -- Josephine de Beauharnais
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang. -- William Butler Yeats
From the reign of Emperor Constantine to the present, the Christian notion that sexual love brings spiritual death has been the cornerstone of Western sex law. -- David Berkowitz
When I'm wrong I'm like the Emperor on the Death Star thinking he'll turn Luke. Yet, when I'm right I'm a Jedi like my father before me. -- Dane Cook
In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, "Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy. -- Sharman Apt Russell
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. -- Paul Eldridge
We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. -- Joshua A. Norton
You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this. -- Origen
In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part -- Melissa Joan Hart
In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part. -- Melissa Joan Hart
Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man who kills the greatest number of his fellow-creatures. -- Leo Tolstoy
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels. -- Fernando Pessoa
The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe. -- Edward Grey
Now that the Emperor has accepted the Potsdam Declaration, we must lay down our arms. Obeying the Emperor's order, we shall not fight. We must keep peace and order and we shall not make any trouble. -- Seishiro Itagaki
The battle of Panipat was fought for more than what is usually imagined. It was fought by a people in the far south of India, on behalf of the Mughal Emperor, for the defence of India. -- Uday S. Kulkarni
Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations. -- Roger Penrose
The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots. -- Joshua A. Norton
That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off. -- Francis Bacon
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me. -- A. E. Waite
Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah . -- Isaac Newton
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Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance, and on its farther side, without Germany and the German Emperor, no great decision dare henceforth be taken. -- Wilhelm II
The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from threads so fine that no one can distinguish them, neither the Emperor nor the children, neither you nor I. -- Einar Mar Guðmundsson
The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from threads so fine that no one can distinguish them, neither the Emperor nor the children, neither you nor I. -- Einar Mar Guðmundsson
The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet island life would suit him - he was, after all, accustomed to governing a large proportion of the known world. -- Susanna Clarke
The Lord is the refuge of all who seek refuge, the saviour of all who have to be saved. He is the Embodiment of Being-Awareness-Bliss (Sat-chit-ananda). He is now at Puttaparthi as the Effulgent Emperor over the region of Truth, Goodness and Beauty. -- Sathya Sai Baba
We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the barefooted child and the doting mother are afforded a holistic environment to realise their dreams and ambitions. -- Anthony Carmona
The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the levers of power: it was won when the victims knelt down in the Colosseum and prayed in the name of Jesus for the Emperor. -- Lesslie Newbigin
Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?" -- Peter Shaffer
We still haven't gotten the message; we still don't see that it's bad. And then we copy everything about their [Roman Empire] structure. I mean Paul Bremer was the proconsul of Iraq. We're still using ancient terminology, we still have Senators and we have an Emperor, almost. -- Immortal Technique
The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West." -- Henri Pirenne
The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. -- Henri Pirenne
But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, since these advantages fail me, I shall win your approval, as I hope, by the help of my knowledge and my writings. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
A lot's riding on 'Dune,' and my friends in Seattle realize what's happening if I freak out a bit. They accept whatever I happen to be, and they tell me when I'm slipping out of Kyle. They call me the 'God Emperor of the Universe.' -- Kyle MacLachlan
This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the most learned and cultured poets, authors, musicians, and architects of the time - relying solely on his remarkable memory during conversations with them. -- Indu Sundaresan
The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace -- Haile Selassie
The Imperial Household, as represented by the Emperor, has been praying for the welfare of the people while nurturing harmonious relationship with them. Based on the people's respect and adoration for the Emperor, the Japanese people have stayed united. That is the essence of Japan's national heritage, I believe. -- Yoshiko Sakurai
Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government. -- Elliott Abrams
The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar. -- Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I appear to be ruler if the control of the Roman city be wrested from my hands. -- Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
It becomes an emperor to die standing. -- Vespasian
Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. -- Charles V
Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. -- Charles V
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor. -- Lord Byron
I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important. -- Marcel Carne
I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor. -- Jack Kingston
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. -- Guru Nanak
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. -- Khalil Gibran
There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar. -- Frederic William Farrar
It has always been the perogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. -- Neil Gaiman
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. -- Neil Gaiman
Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor. -- William Adams
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write. -- Chinua Achebe
If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted. -- Theodor Mommsen
I've never thought of it consciously... I say exactly what I think, and very often it's totally politically incorrect. I get, always, chastised for it. So it's not shtick. But I think I'm the one who says, 'The emperor has no clothes.' -- Joan Rivers
People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do. -- Paula Cole
For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that's exactly how they've been treated. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him. -- August Wilson
Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams. -- Clark Ashton Smith
Genius is not a retainer to any emperor. -- Henry David Thoreau
The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church. -- Ambrose
No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor. -- Agrippina the Younger
I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. -- George Washington
I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine. -- Philip Massinger
I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs. -- Wilhelm II
Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes -- Colin Powell
Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic. -- Rupert Murdoch
When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time. -- Mira Grant
Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor. -- Rajneesh
Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation. -- John Updike
Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor. -- Rajneesh
The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties. -- Neil Gaiman
I don't wear armor. I don't carry weapons. An emperor needs only his imagination. -- Lionel Suggs
Faith is the flame that eliminates fear, and faith is the emperor of dreams. -- Suzy Kassem
I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States. -- Barack Obama
Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. -- Billy Sunday
If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor. -- Sarah MacLean

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