Kings Quotes
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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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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 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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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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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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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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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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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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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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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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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 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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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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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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You could be the king but watch the queen conquer!
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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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Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king.
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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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A born king is a very rare being.
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King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.
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I am a man more sinned against than sinning
