Top 34 Holy Roman Emperor Quotes
#1. You know that I'm not going to let the Holy Roman Emperor - or anybody else, for that matter - seduce me.
Deborah Harkness
#2. In theory the Holy Roman Emperor exercised a temporal sway matching the spiritual rule of the Pope over the universal community under God.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#3. Christmas Day 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne "Holy Roman Emperor" in the Basilica of St. Peter. The congregation acclaimed him as "Augustus," and Leo prostrated himself at Charlemagne's feet.
Karen Armstrong
#4. I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once in Studio 54. It was too noisy. My version of those years mostly took place at my house.
J. D. Souther
#6. Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
#8. In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen.
Kohta Hirano
#9. Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I appear to be ruler if the control of the Roman city be wrested from my hands.
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
#11. Pure joy is rare. That's why for every meal I eat a really bloody steak.
Bauvard
#13. In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
Sharman Apt Russell
#14. On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church.
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
#15. An infamous political prison required a revolution as much as a revolution required an infamous political prison.
Tom Rob Smith
#16. Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
Adam McKay
#18. Servitude of any sort is distasteful to all men, but especially objectionable is subjection to others in the case of those who ought to rule.
Ulrich Von Hutten
#19. Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.
Maxwell Bodenheim
#21. The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground.
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
#22. To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German.
Emperor Charles V
#23. It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.
Frederick Herzberg
#25. The sky itself reels with Love.
Rumi
#26. Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#27. How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
#32. America was not interventionist enough, which, of course, did mean a bit of a breach with old comrades on the left. I felt the international left in the countries concerned took the same position as I did. So, in my view, it's the left that's become reactionary and isolationist and parochial.
Christopher Hitchens
#34. You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
John Kennedy Toole
