Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Trout

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

Voltaire

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Walter Scott

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.

Eric S. Raymond

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

John Boyd Orr

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.

Pat Buchanan

Empire breeds terrorism.

Pythagoras

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Lauren Conrad

I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.

Oswald Mosley

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

Paul Verlaine

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

John McGahern

My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'

John Oliver

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

Joseph Chamberlain

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Cardinal Richelieu

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

Dana Gioia

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Daniel Pinkwater

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

Donald Rumsfeld

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

Suzy Menkes

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

Tony Benn

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

Tom Wolfe

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

Steven Erikson

You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue…

Stockwell Day

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

Sallust

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

Stafford Cripps

It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can

Strobe Talbott

In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell

Esther Hicks

You cannot be less than you are now. You cannot achieve a vibration that is less than the vibration that you have achieved. That's why when someone achieves an empire and then something happens where it is lost or destroyed, they still have the vibration that they've achieved, and the empire will come back again - you see it all the time - because it is the vibrational status that the Universe is responding to, not the financial status.

George Washington

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

George Will

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern.

Hugo Chavez

Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!

Hugo Chavez

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.