Famous quotes containing the words emperor of, emperor, french and/or empire:
“The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.”
—Ambrose (c. 333–397)
“... the French know that you must not succeed you must rise from the ashes and how could you rise from the ashes if there were no ashes, but the Germans never think of ashes and so when there are ashes there is no rising, not at all and every day and in every way this is clearer and clearer.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“now
I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found
Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew
When Alexander’s empire passed, they slept so sound.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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