Kings Quotes

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.

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.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

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.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

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.

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.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

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.

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.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

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.

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.

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.

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.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.

And love is love in beggars and in kings.

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.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.