Famous quotes containing the words emperor, late and/or reign:
“The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)