Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or venus:
“An empire is an immense egotism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea
she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males
and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)