Kings Death Quotes

#1. Death lays his icy hand on kings.

James Shirley

#2. Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

Tim Witherspoon

#3. And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

William Shakespeare

#4. Be still, O little one, for I am Death. Another cobra had said that, in something else by Kipling. The cobras in his stories were heartless but they spoke beautifully, like wicked kings in the Old Testament.

Donna Tartt

#5. I know precisely what honor is, Heracles. Honor is the artifice kings sell the peasants' sons so that they may fight and die without pay. Honor is what drives a peaceful man to bloody vengeance. Honor is what drove the Celts to behead the children of the Apache Courts.
- The Egyptian God Bes

Jonathan Maas

#6. Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

Jacoby Shaddix

#7. Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

Horace

#8. Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.

William Shakespeare

#9. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, ... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

Joseph Addison

#10. He leaned up and nipped at her shoulder before reaching around to tease her nipples.
"Talin."
"Aye, love?"
"I need you."
He didn't have to be told twice.

Donna Grant

#11. One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England.

Glenn T. Seaborg

#12. Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

Horace

#13. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!

John Keats

#14. How fitting [it would be if Roger Federer played the first match under the roof] ... he has become known in recent years as the King of Wimbledon ... and this is the day after of the death of the King of Pop.

Sue Barker

#15. Death was not prejudiced by mortal things such as station or gender. It came for kings and queens and prostitutes alike, often leaving the living with regrets. What might we have done differently if we'd known the end was so near?

Kerri Maniscalco

#16. That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

Amelia Barr

#17. One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations - the relations between the creature and his Creator.

Daniel Webster

#18. You should've run faster, Lexi. You should've stayed far away from the Dark. But most of all, you should never have fallen for your Dragon King. It'll only bring you misery and death. Humans and Kings were never meant to mix.

Donna Grant

#19. The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.

James Salter

#20. Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Horace

#21. On Friday a thief, on Sunday a King ... the man Jesus Christ laid death in his grave!

John Mark McMillan

#22. So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like the ones who ruined the world.

Alaya Dawn Johnson

#23. His head lowered so that his cheek softly brushed against hers. With his mouth near her ear, he whispered, I can't keep my hands from you.

Donna Grant

#24. For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

Theodora

#25. Baylon wasn't sure he could conceal his craving for her, the need that clawed and ripped through him to declare Jordyn as his. It would be a death sentence, but to live without her ... that was also a death sentence.

Donna Grant

#26. If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.

Andy Eddy

#27. Say not a word in death's favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead. -Achilles

Homer

#28. One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

Georges Danton

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

Robert Bolt

#30. The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armor against Fate.
Death lays his icy hand on kings ...

James Shirley

#31. One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.

Gene Weingarten

#32. Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.

William Shakespeare

#33. For who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods, a cruel and violent death shall be his fate, and never shall his soul find rest unto eternity. Such is the curse of Amon-Ra, king of all the gods.

Griffin Jay

#34. A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.

Gregor Piatigorsky

#35. It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.

John Milton

#36. I believe I met a girl in the rain, who had lost her mother's earrings. And I killed her. Now I stand here in a time I know nothing about. I watched the death of kings far greater than any man living now. And I am still here.

Rebecca Maizel

#37. My father was a doctor so I was around death all my life. So, I was very used to it because he was a f-king doctor.

Joan Rivers

#38. I'm Kyran. I'm usually the one who keeps him in line," he said as he motioned to Talin.
That made Neve's smile widen. "You need to keep a better eye on him."
"I know," Kyran replied wryly.

Donna Grant

#39. He rose up and looked down at her. "If I'd known you were out there, I would've begun searching for you thousands of years ago."
Her smile was soft and glorious. "That was the perfect response."
"It's the truth.

Donna Grant

#40. Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.

John Henry Jowett

#41. No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

John Dryden

#42. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.

Laozi

#43. History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.

Jean-Henri Fabre

#44. Only from chaos does order come. The angry Fates bring death where they will, when war is king, says Enlil, storm god of the armies, and the tip of his crown rends the clouds above their heads. "Wheresoever I rule, death comes shambling after. So it has always been, is, and will be."

Janet Morris

#45. The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

Charles Lamb

#46. The months have been good to Tiberias Calore. A life of war suits him. He seems vibrant and alive, even after narrowly escaping death on the walls.

Victoria Aveyard

#47. No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.

Bram Stoker

#48. Fae with Rhi's kind of ability were myth and legends - not true beings.

Donna Grant

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

Horace

#50. The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you.

George R R Martin

#51. Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.

Garth Brooks

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

Dwight L. Moody

#53. No one will bother us now."
She touched his lips with her finger. "I think I'll scream if they do."
"Oh, you'll be screaming. That I promise you.

Donna Grant

#54. Erith, he said and bowed his head.
Her blue-black hair hung to her hips in soft waves.

Donna Grant

#55. Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

#56. What if thou be saint or sinner,
Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,
Empty paunch, or jolly dinner,
When Death thee shall call.
All like are rich or richer,
King with crown, and cross-legged stitcher,
When the grave hides all.

Richard Watson Gilder

#57. Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

#58. For Death's life to be extinguished ... now that was something to truly dread.

Donna Grant

#59. Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.

Samuel Adams

#60. Jordyn lowered her arms to her sides. "So. This is war?"
Baylon nodded. "This is war.

Donna Grant

#61. Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.

George R R Martin

#62. The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men.

Alaya Dawn Johnson

#63. We feel sorrow and pain over the death of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd. We have known this man for a long time ... he showed support and commitment to the Palestinian revolution and to Fatah since the 1960s.

Mahmoud Abbas