Kingly Quotes

#1. Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.

John Flavel

#2. There's nothing so kingly as kindness,
And nothing so royal as truth.

Alice Cary

#3. Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.

Hanya Yanagihara

#4. Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#5. In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.

Plato

#6. The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

Mark Twain

#7. I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?

William Shakespeare

#8. The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

Tanith Lee

#9. And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?

Rainer Maria Rilke

#10. I did something so that others would do something. That is kingly

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. How mean and foolish are the living, with their never-ending terrors and curiosities, the puny effort of their lives, when faced with the quiet, kingly dead.

Hermann Hesse

#12. Now, in the eyes of the stars, men may be no more exalted than beasts, and kingly men no worthier than the wretched.

Tom Robbins

#13. I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.

Samuel Rutherford

#14. The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. It is a kingly act to help the fallen.

Ovid

#16. The Son of God goes forth to war,A kingly crown to gain;His blood red banner streams afar:Who follows in His train?Who best can drink his cup of woe,Triumphant over pain,Who patient bears his cross below,He follows in His train.

Reginald Heber

#17. Jesus's titulus reads KING OF THE JEWS. His crime: striving for kingly rule; sedition. And so, like every bandit and revolutionary, every rabble-rousing zealot and apocalyptic prophet who came before or after him -

Reza Aslan

#18. The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Henry Ward Beecher

#19. So shall I fight, so shall I tread,
In this long war beneath the stars;
So shall a glory wreathe my head,
So shall I faint and show the scars,
Until this case, this clogging mould,
Be smithied all to kingly gold.

John Masefield

#20. Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!

William Blake

#21. True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.

James Ellis

#22. Comedies are fit for common wits:
But to present a kingly troop withal,
Give me a stately-written tragedy;
Tragadia cothurnata, fitting kings,
Containing matter, and not common things.

Thomas Kyd

#23. The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president.

Mark Helprin

#24. Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

Plutarch

#25. A king acts so that others will act. Nothing comes from nothing comes from nothing. But something makes something...I did something so that others would so something. That is kingly.

Maggie Stiefvater

#26. It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#27. ( ... ) I, for one, prize less
The name of king than deeds of kingly power;
And so would all who learn in wisdom's school.

Sophocles

#28. To be alone, but to be pierced through with a kingly joy, now and then, as I believe I am, is a great possession indeed.

Sebastian Barry

#29. Chrysanthemums," my friend commented as we moved through our garden stalking flower-show blossoms with decapitating shears, "are like lions. Kingly characters. I always expect them to spring. To turn on me with a growl and a roar.

Truman Capote

#30. Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

Thomas Hardy

#31. I am not fair save to the King, Though fair my royal dress, His kingly grace is lavished on My need and worthlessness. My blemishes he will not see But loves the beauty that shall be.

Hannah Hurnard

#32. God's Fatherly prerogative, is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy - the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#33. Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.

William Shakespeare

#34. Carter stood straight. I could see the doubt and fear in him, but possibly that was just because I knew him. I'd spoken his secret name. On the outside, he looked confident, strong, adult - even kingly. [Yes, I said that. Don't get a big head, brother dear. You're still a huge dork.]

Rick Riordan

#35. It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

Mother Teresa

#36. It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.

Sebastian Barry

#37. This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.

Omar Khayyam

#38. There was a long pause while she hated everyone impartially: Tor for behaving like a farmer's son whose pet chicken has just been insulted; her father, for being so immovably kingly; and Perlith for being Perlith.

Robin McKinley

#39. Sovereignty means exercising kingly power. We use the word in relation to God meaning that there is absolutely nothing that he does not control.

Graeme Goldsworthy

#40. What saith Antisthenes? Hast thou never heard? - It is a kingly thing, O Cyrus, to do well and to be evil spoken of.

Epictetus

#41. is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the assistant, when he has driven out the invader, should seize on the dominions himself, and kill, imprison, or banish, the prince he came to relieve.

Jonathan Swift

#42. I swear I will never trust Edward again. This is not kingly, this is not as Arthur of Camelot. This is behaviour as base as an archer's bastard and I cannot meet his eyes when I see him stuffing his mouth at King Louis' table and pocketing the gold forks.

Philippa Gregory

#43. If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and someone around you.

Joni Mitchell

#44. What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

Walter Scott