Holy Roman Empress

Famous quotes containing the words holy, roman and/or empress:

    “O Holy Wisdom, Soaring Power, encompass us with wings unfurled,
    and carry us, encircling all, above, below, and through the world.”
    —Hildegard Von Bingen (1078–1179)

    “The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

    “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)