Kings Quotes
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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.
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There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.
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The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.
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The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.
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Unless you're Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates, no one's going to recognize you on the street, and you're promoting your book, not yourself.
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.
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You could be the king but watch the queen conquer!
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I've been working through Maurice Druon's 'Accursed Kings' series. They come highly recommended from George R. R. Martin, and for good reason.
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.
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John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.
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In this very moment I'm king In this very moment I slayed Goliath with a sling
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So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by.
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Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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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.
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Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
