Kings Quotes

• But then, in Piazza di Carbonara, from stones she moved on to weapons, and it became the place where men fought to the last drop of blood. Beggars and gentlemen and princes hurried to see people killing each other in revenge. When some handsome youth fell, pierced by a blade beaten on the anvil of death, immediately beggars, bourgeois citizens, kings and queens offered applause that rose to the stars.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Blood
  • Revenge
  • Weapons

• Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Patience
  • Graves
  • Gazing

• The cold hand of history, which is for ever robbing us of some of our oldest and best cherished stories, points rigidly to the fact that no such person as King Arthur ever presided over a Round Table. Be this as it may, romance still hugs her heroes to her heart as possessions to be not willingly let die.

  

  H. A. Guerber
  • Heart
  • May
  • History

• Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow– priests, kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer enemy for threatening the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their illusory web.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Law

• I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!

  

  B. B. King
  • Deep
  • King
  • Cutting

• If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Kings
  • Princes
  • Exalted

• The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sea
  • Lie
  • Valleys

• Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Rude

• I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Poor
  • Figures
  • Saint

• Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thanks
  • Fit
  • Remembrance

• For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Drinking
  • Dishes
  • Ale

• The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Wish
  • Wisdom
  • King

• This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Night
  • King
  • Queens

• The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Kings
  • Proclaim
  • Chariots

• The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • President
  • Lord
  • Sovereign

• For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Court
  • Beggar
  • Cottages

• Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • God
  • Long
  • Country

• I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they ask me what piece I am, and I say, 'I'm no piece. I take the position of God.'

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • People
  • Pieces
  • Knights

• Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it. But when it claims to have discovered the real world for us and laughs at the worlds of all simple-minded men, then we must say it is like a general grown intoxicated with his power, usurping the throne of his king

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Men
  • Real

• For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Kings
  • Deserts

• I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

  

  Thomas More
  • Men
  • Should
  • Lions

• If princes and kings could follow it (Tao), all things would by themselves abide, Heaven and Earth would unite and sweet dew would fall. People would by themselves find harmony, without being commanded.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Harmony
  • Kings
  • Heaven And Earth

• No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.

  

  Saadi
  • Hope
  • Dream
  • Vision

• Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the people Oh, God of mercy! When? Not kings and lords, but nations! Not thrones and crowns, but men! Flowers of thy heart, of God they are. Let them not pass like weeds, away Their heritage a sunless day! God save the people! When wilt thou save the people? Oh, God of mercy! When? The people Lord the people! Not thrones and crowns, but men! God save the people! Thine they are, Thy children, as thy angels fair, Save them from bondage and despair. God save the people!

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • God
  • Children
  • Support

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