Kings Quotes

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.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

Kings are in the moral order what monsters are in the natural.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

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

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.

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

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.

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings.

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?

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

This is the home of hurdling, and the Americans are the kings of the event.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

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.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.