Emperor Augustus

Famous quotes containing the words emperor augustus, emperor and/or augustus:

    In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered.
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 2:1.

    Let be be finale of seem.
    The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.
    —J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)