Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or empress:
“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”
—Irish Proverb.
“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)