Empress Quotes

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings. - Catherine The Great

While creating as quiet an environment as possible, I would like to watch over the recovery of the Crown Princess. - Empress Michiko

There are only so many roles as empresses... but I've had a lot of offers to play vampires. - Joan Chen

The throne is a glorious sepulcher. - Empress Theodora

The posture, the strength of the neck - she looks like an empress; she looks like she's staring down the troops, or staring down the pigeons. - Jonathan Lane

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity. - Arthur E. Waite

Something very special was going to happen on that day. - Empress Michiko

Sayako was a child who would first come over to me serenely and say, 'Don't mind,' whenever I was disappointed about a mistake I made or about something that happened unexpectedly. This situation has not changed even to this day, and there are times when His Majesty talks about Sayako, and says, 'What happened to our Miss Don't Mind...?' How fondly we will remember and miss this tender and heart-warming 'Don't mind' in the days to come. - Empress Michiko

It truly saddens me, however, that the relationship so nurtured between our two countries should have been marred by the Second World War. The Empress and I can never forget the many kinds of suffering so many people have undergone because of that war. At the thought of the scars of war that they bear, our hearts are filled with deep sorrow and pain. - Akihito