#emperor

I don't wear armor. I don't carry weapons. An emperor needs only his imagination. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#imagination #power #imagination

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue. ↗

— Mary Antin

#close #command #congregation #czar #emperor

How dangerous emperors are when they go mad. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#emperors #go #how #mad

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#been #carry #emperors #even #finest

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#better #buried #emperor #living #than

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#arousing #boy #chamber #day #dead

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

#claudius #emperor #robert-graves #roman #roman

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor. ↗

— Tacitus

#been #doubted #emperor #had #his

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one. ↗

— Bao Dai

#country #emperor #enslaved #i #independent

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

#celebrity #character #clothes #different #drew