Kings Quotes
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Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'
Anthony Giddens
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One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.
Hilary Mantel
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If he's the king, I'm the prince.
Alex Riley
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Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.
George Bernard Shaw
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I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.
Sean Patrick Flanery
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This king Sesostris divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.
Herodotus
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.
W. S. Gilbert
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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
William Morris
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The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes about the ownership and possession of goods, was, to be a substantial extent, a by-product of that new procedure which had been mainly introduced to perfect the feudal scheme of land law.
Edward Jenks
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In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.
Farouk of Egypt
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...our progenitors, the kings of England, have before these times been lords of the English sea on every side...and it would very much grieve us if in this kind of defence our royal honour should be lost.
Edward III of England
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A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
Plato
