As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.
Kit Williams

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Jean de La Fontaine

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.
Marcel Carne

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.
Mira Nair

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
Emperor Sigismund

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
Andrew Jackson

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
Jack Kingston

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
Bao Dai

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
George Byron

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
Lord Byron

In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part.
Melissa Joan Hart

It becomes an emperor to die standing.
Titus Flavius Vespasian

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil Gaiman

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
Camille Claudel

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.
Wolfman Jack

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
Charles V

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Friedrich Schiller

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Tacitus

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.
Will Adams

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
Mary Antin