Top 17 King Von Quotes

#1. One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

Melanie Klein

#2. My father, my father, and dost thou not hear
The words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?
'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;
Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.

Otto Von Bismarck

#5. The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#6. For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

Jacques Lacan

#7. Fawcett, quoting a companion, wrote that cannibalism at least provides a reasonable motive for killing a man, which is more than you can say for civilized warfare.

David Grann

#8. When the manifest and the un-manifest interact, there is oneness.

Gian Kumar

#9. Ah yes, if I could have a magic cloak
to whisk me off to foreign lands
I should not trade it for the richest robes,
nor for the mantle of a king.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#10. A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#11. We feel more than we can express, we see more than we can say.

Marty Rubin

#12. He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#13. I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#14. The activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead King or an unborn God.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#15. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

Douglas MacArthur

#16. I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.

Max Von Sydow

#17. Desperation makes for poor stealth.

N.K. Jemisin

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