“Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.” — Charles V Quote

“Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.”

“Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.”

“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.”

“I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.”

“I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.”

“In the new Georgia, Stalin is no longer Georgian. He's a Russian emperor.”