The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Jean de La Fontaine
I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
Jack Kingston
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Friedrich Schiller
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
Wallace Stevens
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Tacitus
Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
Charles V
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
Lord Byron