Famous quotes containing the words divine, mother and/or empress:
“The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.”
—Jean Rostand (1894–1977)
“An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“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)