Famous quotes containing the words emperor, late and/or reign:
“The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–c. 120)