Kings Quotes

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

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

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

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 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.

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!

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.

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