Kings Quotes

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

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

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.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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.

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.

War is the trade of Kings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.