King Quotes
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The wrath of Peleus' son, O Muse, resound;Whose dire effects the Grecian army found,And many a hero, king, and hardy knight,Were sent, in early youth, to shades of night.
John Dryden
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When human glory rises high
As human glory can;
When though the king is truly great,
Still greater is the man.
Edward Joseph Young
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I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish.
Michael Koryta
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There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.
Thomas Hobbes
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In ancient Judaism the king of Israel was considered both Son of God and—astonishingly enough—even God.
Bart Ehrman
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In times of crisis, cash is king.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
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With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.
Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
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When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.
Richard Simmons
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Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme.
Homer
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Beauty is a King that needs to be obeyed.
Nuh Ha Mim Keller
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Every man, noble and simple alike, should hold his land as a pledge of god behaviour. His duties, to King, lord, and neighbour, should be settled once and for all; and, if he failed in them, he should be turned out of his home and left to starve. It was a drastic scheme; but a conqueror holding a conquered country by the force of the sword cannot afford to be squeamish.
Edward Jenks
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In the Laws of Cnut, it was formally laid down that no one is to bother the King with his complaints, so long as he can get Justice in the Hundred.
Edward Jenks
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1500 metre. I am the king.
Sun Yang
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Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was kindled in his eyes, and he spoke softly. 'My lord, you called me. I come. What does the king command?
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed. "They cannot conquer for ever!" said Frodo.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.
Homer
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Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
Ethan Canin
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The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself.
Jonathan Mayhew
