KING QUOTES

quotations about kings

Kings quote

Kings are the slaves of history.

LEO TOLSTOY

War and Peace

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Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Maxims for Revolutionists


Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Narcissus in Chains


Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.

LOUIS L'AMOUR

Comstock Lode


Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom.

HOLLY BLACK

The Cruel Prince


Kings are like stars -- they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Hellas


No kingdom can endure two kings.

AGESILAUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


By justice a king gives a country stability.

PROVERBS 29:4


Let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings:
How some have been depos'd, some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd,
Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd;
All murder'd.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Richard II

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Poor man wanna be rich;
Rich man wanna be king.
And a king ain't satisfied
Till he rules everything.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Badlands", Darkness on the Edge of Town


All kings is mostly rapscallions.

MARK TWAIN

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


It is better to be without a king than [to have] a bad one.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya


A man's a man,
But when you see a king, you see the work
Of many thousand men.

GEORGE ELIOT

Spanish Gypsy

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Never does liberty appear in a more gracious form than under a pious king.

CLAUDIANUS

De Laudibus Stilichonis


It is the King's office to protect and settle the true interpretation of the Law of God within his Dominions.

JAMES I

speech in Star Chamber, 1616


What are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Edward the Second


The rule
Of the many is not well. One must be chief
In war and one the king.

HOMER

The Iliad

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Fear God. Honour the King.

BIBLE

I Peter 2:17

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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

SINCLAIR LEWIS

It Can't Happen Here


A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

ALEXANDER POPE

"Thoughts on Various Subjects"