Empress Dowager Title

Famous quotes containing the words empress and/or title:

    “The Empress is Legitimist, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.”
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)

    “Eternity is not ours by right; and, alone, unrequited sufferings here, form no title thereto.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)