Kings Quotes
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The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings. (Quote by - Qin Shi Huangdi)
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes. (Quote by - Robert Bolt)
I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey. (Quote by - Rob Zombie)
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. (Quote by - William Morris)
For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed. (Quote by - Thomas Malory)
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. (Quote by - Charles Davenport)
For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes. (Quote by - Michael W. Smith)
I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists. (Quote by - Giuseppe Zangara)
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. (Quote by - Hesiod)
The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people. (Quote by - Meir Kahane)
Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man. (Quote by - Peter Abrahams)
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. (Quote by - Aaron Sorkin)
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. (Quote by - Moliere)
I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings. (Quote by - Bill Wyman)
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. (Quote by - Marquis de Sade)
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. (Quote by - Diogenes)
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings. (Quote by - Laurence Olivier)
Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess. (Quote by - Kary Mullis)
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves. (Quote by - Benjamin Tucker)
His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. (Quote by - Frederick The Great)
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. (Quote by - Kevin J. Anderson)
The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred. (Quote by - Seneca)
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. (Quote by - William Penn)
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. (Quote by - Thomas A. Edison)
Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer? (Quote by - Ahmed Yassin)
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. (Quote by - Xun Zi)
I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings. (Quote by - Bill Wyman)
To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings. (Quote by - Duc De Richelieu)
Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie. (Quote by - Beau Bridges)
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen. (Quote by - Ted Koppel)
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. (Quote by - King Farouk)
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. (Quote by - Horace)
All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. (Quote by - Guru Nanak)
And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended. (Quote by - Ferdowsi)
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings! (Quote by - Dwight L. Moody)
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. (Quote by - Horace)
I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it. (Quote by - Denzel Washington)
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? (Quote by - Christopher Marlowe)
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we." (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we." (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are. (Quote by - Angie Stone)
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. (Quote by - Imelda Marcos)
Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings. (Quote by - Howard Carter)
Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat. (Quote by - Harry Houdini)
War is the trade of Kings. (Quote by - John Dryden)
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city. (Quote by - Goldwin Smith)
Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. (Quote by - Charles James Fox)
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. (Quote by - J. M. Roberts)
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. (Quote by - Thomas Dekker)
Punctuality is the politeness of kings. (Quote by - Louis XVIII)
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. (Quote by - Mary Wollstonecraft)
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. (Quote by - George Sand)
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Kings are in the moral order what monsters are in the natural. (Quote by - Henri Gregoire)
I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street. (Quote by - Kelly Jones)
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. (Quote by - James Shirley)
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons. (Quote by - Caleb Cushing)
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. (Quote by - Mika Waltari)
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. (Quote by - Plato)
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. (Quote by - Patrick Stewart)
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings. (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs. (Quote by - Bill Wyman)
And love is love in beggars and in kings. (Quote by - Edward Dyer)
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. (Quote by - Ernst Toller)
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others. (Quote by - Sallust)
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. (Quote by - Amelia Barr)
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. (Quote by - Solomon Ibn Gabirol)
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. (Quote by - Harold MacMillan)
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings. (Quote by - Julius Wellhausen)
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
