Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or sweet:
“Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch
Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.
Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike
Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life
Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair
And such a twain can do ‘t, in which I bind,
On pain of punishment, the world to weet
We stand up peerless.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Sweet is it, sweet is it
To sleep in the coolness
Of snug unawareness.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)