Phaedrus (Gaius Julius Phaedrus) Quotes

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

Phaedrus

• King
• Liberty
• Forfeit

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• I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

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• When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

  

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• The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

  

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• We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.

  

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• When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.

  

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• I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.

  

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• The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.

  

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• No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

  

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• Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

  

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• I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

  

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• I forgot, being too interested myself, that he’s a king, and does not see things rationally, but as a king.

  

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• I want to see the king.Wonderful. I'm glad for you.Why are you so glad?Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.

  

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• The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

  

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• LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.

  

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• There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

  

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• Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

  

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• I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

  

  Phaedrus
  • King
  • Liberty
  • Forfeit