Kings Quotes
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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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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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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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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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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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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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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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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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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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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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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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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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You could be the king but watch the queen conquer!
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Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
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I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king.
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A born king is a very rare being.
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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I am a man more sinned against than sinning
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King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.
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Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.
