Kings Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."

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.

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?

War is the trade of Kings.

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.

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

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

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

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.

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

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'