Eastern Emperor

Famous quotes containing the words eastern and/or emperor:

“I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

“The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)