Roman Emperor Henry

Famous quotes containing the words roman, emperor and/or henry:

    Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily.
    Let not our looks put on our purposes,
    But bear it as our Roman actors do,
    With untired spirits and formal constancy.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered.
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 2:1.

    Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind’s throwing?
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)