William Shakespeare Quotes

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

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• Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!

  

  Kate Williams
  • Son
  • Sister
  • Kings

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Mind
  • Quality
  • New York

• There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Question
  • Kings

• In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Family
  • Think
  • English

• The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Kings
  • Stone

• Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Born
  • Kings
  • Artificial

• In this very moment I'm king In this very moment I slayed Goliath with a sling

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Moments
  • King
  • Kings

• And the first king was a lucky soldier.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • King
  • Lucky
  • Soldier

• Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Life
  • Good
  • King

• Cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the lookout for new orders from your King. Blessing lies in the direction of obedience to them. God's commands are but signboards that mark the road to present success and blessedness and to eternal glory.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • God
  • Success
  • Present

• The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.

  

  Pal Benko
  • Business
  • Control
  • King

• It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Needs
  • King
  • Kings

• The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

  

  King James I
  • God
  • Earth
  • Kings

• God has power to create, or destroy, make, or unmake at his pleasure, to give life, or send death, to judge all, and to be judged nor accountable to none: to raise low things, and to make high things low at his pleasure, and to God are both soul and body due. And the like power have Kings; they make and unmake their subjects: they have power of raising, and casting down: of life, and of death: judges over all their subjects, and in all causes, and yet accountable to none but God only.

  

  King James I
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Suffering

• Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Kind
  • King
  • Persons

• [Martin Luther] King was one of the two young ministers - and you know how directly oriented the Negro community still is towards the minister as the leader.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Community
  • King
  • Leader

• If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • May
  • Chance
  • Kings

• What I found most ironic is that the safest part for us as journalists was during the actual war. Back then, during that stage of fighting, we were not targets. After the war itself, during the first month or two, it was extremely safe. We could go anywhere in Iraq, talk to anyone, and didn't have to worry about anything.

  

  Yaroslav Trofimov
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Worry

• Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

  

  Diogenes
  • Path
  • Existence
  • Backward

• The sooner every party breaks up the better.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Party
  • Breaks up

• Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Kings
  • Lear
  • Banishment