#emperor

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

#am #art #benevolent #cholera #emperor

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar. ↗

— Emperor Sigismund

#am #emperor #grammar #i #i am

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German. ↗

— Emperor Charles V

#humorous-quotes #languages #humor

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

— Lionel Suggs

#imagination #power #imagination

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. ↗

— John Foxe

#emperor #first #persecution #place #rome

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

#depend #divine #emperor #false #japanese

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country. ↗

— Wolfman Jack

#earn #emperor #enough #fake #japanese

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

#ago #book #calculations #called #comes

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

#century #culture #destroyed #emperor #essential

Now it has become clear to me, that it cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another. In our troubled world so full of contradictions, the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all. Perhaps in this way the door may be opened again whose key has been lost." -- Emperor Akbar ↗

— Emperor Akbar

#faith #fatehpur-sikri #india #religion #universal