Kings Quotes

• Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Why
  • Waiting
  • King

• 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

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Kings
  • Princes
  • Exalted

• Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.

  

  Simon Callow
  • Needs
  • Knows
  • Lear

• 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

• As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

  

  Ernst Toller
  • Fair
  • Horrors
  • Murderers

• A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

  

  Vittorio Alfieri
  • Hatred
  • Conquer
  • Breasts

• The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.

  

  Claudius Claudianus
  • People
  • Example
  • Fashioned

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Rude

• 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

• Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • King
  • Breaths

• Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

  

  Eugenie de Guerin
  • Fall
  • Kings
  • Palaces

• 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

• Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thanks
  • Fit
  • Remembrance

• To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lying
  • Falsehood
  • Beggar

• I said, "Do you think she thinks it's me?" Jas said, "Well, it's pretty conclusive, isn't it? She said 'the most sniveling idiot I have ever come across.'" I said, "I didn't know that YOU have been seeing Masimo. Tom the Slug King is going to be very upset.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Pretty

• 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

• 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

• 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

• On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) This adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned in Scripture, according to which Kings and important people were worshiped; this did not mean more than falling down before them at their feet and honoring them.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Opinion
  • Scripture
  • Worship of God

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • May
  • Chance
  • Crowns

• If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • History
  • Mess
  • Presidents

• 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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