Famous quotes containing the words divine, mother and/or empress:
“The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The lightning—it is good for you. Your father was Frankenstein, but your mother was the lightning. She has come down to you again.”
—W. Scott Darling. Erle C. Kenton. Ygor (Bela Lugosi)
“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)