Top 100 Quotes About A King
#1. Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.
Bill Johnson
#3. He always watched and studied. He was a king - and you could not properly dominate that which you did not understand.
Brandon Sanderson
#5. By popular demand a king had been appointed, but if Israel thought that he would solve all their problems by leading them to conquests without reference to God's law, they were quite wrong.
Joyce G. Baldwin
#6. People will live their lives with or without a king to command them. It is the king who cannot live without his people.
Fuyumi Ono
#7. It's not simply that communists are atheists and want to stamp out religion; it's that they cannot tolerate anyone who worships a King who stands above the kings of this world. For that higher allegiance gives a basis for demanding freedom and rights from the earthly king.49
Charles W. Colson
#9. Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.
Oliver Goldsmith
#10. A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
Will Rogers
#11. Your thinking has the potentiality to make you a kid or a king, in it lies your enthronement or dethronement.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#12. The power of a king was not absolute, after all: it could be restrained by the will of the people.
Ken Follett
#13. When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.
Andrea Bocelli
#14. LEONATO
Neighbours, you are tedious.
DOGBERRY
It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in
my heart to bestow it all of your worship.
William Shakespeare
#15. I don't need to be a king for you to be my queen.
Kenya Wright
#17. Boonie wondered with sadness, Why don't I have any real memories like that of this elder statesman who happens to live in our house from time to time? This handsome, formal man whose blood runs mysteriously in my own veins? He was always more like a king than a father.
Suzanne Stroh
#18. Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.
Mercedes Lackey
#19. The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
Livy
#20. He'd won. There'd be dragons again. And a king again. Not like the old kings. A king who would do what he was told.
Terry Pratchett
#21. Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated
Robert Greene
#22. A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work,
Julius Evola
#23. This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.
Geraldine Brooks
#24. Let God be God, let Him rule as The Lord and reign as a King in your life.
Euginia Herlihy
#25. I need my own armor, and soon. A silly queen I'll look when I've been slowly flattened into a man."
Mace grinned. "You wouldn't be the first queen of this kingdom to be mistaken for a king.
Erika Johansen
#26. I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.
David Gemmell
#27. Work like a horse
live like a king
Palash
#28. No, the fault lies with the artists," Claire went on. "The writers, the singers, the tellers of tales. It's them that take the past and re-create it to their liking. Them that could take a fool and give you back a hero, take a sot and make him a king.
Diana Gabaldon
#30. From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
Alexander Pope
#31. Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.
Confucius
#32. Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive.
Plutarch
#34. A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.
John Gower
#35. Hadoop! I love the sound of it. Kat Potente, you and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop, and he will be a great warrior, a king!
Robin Sloan
#36. Goals and dreams are not purposed to please others. I'd rather be the jester who adds value to those around me than a King with no vision or intention of making a difference.
Janna Cachola
#37. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.
Benjamin Franklin
#38. It certainly wasn't the chronicle of a king. The yere of our Lord 1537 was a prince born to king Harry th'eight. It was, instead, the story of a poor boy who learns to read and comes to know as much of politics as a prince. This
Jill Lepore
#39. Looking for a queen or a king to respect, then I suggest you nature which is a real queen, a real king: Generous, creative, almighty and just!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. One who is Master of himself is always a King, if only to himself.
L. Frank Baum
#42. He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John Milton
#44. If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].
King James I
#45. To hold a human soul in the palm of your hand like a pebble. To feel somebody slip away, yet by your actions to bring her back! Not even a king had such power.
Noah Gordon
#46. If I ever become a king, I'm totally going to ask him for an army of giant golden acid-spitting llamas. Okay, sorry. I got distracted again.
Rick Riordan
#47. Theon swept his cloak off its peg and over his shoulders. "Fathers are like that," he admitted as he pinned the folds with a silver clasp. "Tell him he should be pleased. As many times as I've fucked you, you're likely with child. It's not every man who has the honor of raising a king's bastard.
George R R Martin
#48. In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
Sallust
#49. A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#50. The kingdom of God is not of the people, by the people, or for the people. It is a kingdom ruled by a King, and God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
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R.C. Sproul
#51. Power lies not in what a king does, but in what his subjects believe he might do.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#52. Suddenly yearning had a flavor. It tasted like a king, a beautiful, frightening, infuriating man who flew into my life and began to free my words.
Amy Harmon
#53. What is your future, son of a king?' he heard Torina say.
Landen smiled. 'Ask your crystal, daughter of a queen.'
She traced his eyebrow with a finger. 'My crystal never tells me what I can see with my own eyes.
Victoria Hanley
#54. The source of beauty in a man,
It is humbleness and grace;
Equality is the pearl of a king,
Justice his scepter;
Salvation is his crown.
Stephan Attia
#55. Christ counts it his honour, that he is a king of a willing people, and not of slaves. He comes to make you free, not to bring you into bondage, to make you kings, not vassals. None
William Gurnall
#56. Too Dream like a King is a Normal LifeStyle.
Jan Jansen
#57. If he cannot be tried for his failures as a king, let him be tried for his failures as a man.
Leigh Bardugo
#58. Why is it that if a lord or a king sends you to kill a man, it's somehow noble? But if you do this for yourself, it's murder?
Jon Sprunk
#59. I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
Lady Gregory
#60. Having lived with kings, I have become a king in my own home.
Voltaire
#61. Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
Sinclair Lewis
#62. The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.
Chanakya
#63. Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.
Rumi
#64. Do you want to work like a slave and live like a king or do you want to work like a king and live like a slave? Your choice
Nathanael Kanyinga
#65. I crocheted a blanket larger than a king-size bed. I just kept going.
Brooke Elliott
#66. Drunks they may be, but a drunken man knows not fear. Fools, aye, but a fool can kill a king. Rats, that too, but a thousand rats can bring down a bear.
George R R Martin
#67. Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.
A.J. Darkholme
#69. I'm a King. Regardless of what I've been through and what I've done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.
DMX
#71. It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.
Marquis De Lafayette
#72. The heart is greater than the universe, for it can find pity in it for everything in the universe, and the universe itself can feel no pity. The heart is greater than a King, because a heart can know a King for what he is, and still love him. And once you give your heart, you cannot take it back.
Neil Gaiman
#73. There's such divinity doth hedge a king. That treason doth but peep to what it would.
William Shakespeare
#74. A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
Aristotle.
#75. It is very easy to be a military strategist, a mercenary, or a king, but much harder to be a father.
Nadia Scrieva
#76. If your instigations stop, then there will not be anyone to instigate you. All these are indeed the results of your own [past] instigations. 'You' are a King of the whole universe. 'You' do not indeed have anyone above you (as a boss, upari). 'You', yourself are the Parmatma (absolute supreme Soul).
Dada Bhagwan
#78. It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little bird in the chimney.
George R R Martin
#79. I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time.
James Goldman
#80. The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener - a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.
Dale Carnegie
#81. I think," said the Major, taking his pipe from his mouth, "that desire is the most wonderful thing in life. Anybody who can really feel it, is a king, and I envy nobody else!" He put back his pipe.
D.H. Lawrence
#82. A king made choices for other people based on information they didn't have. That was the burden of rule.
Brent Weeks
#83. A crazy man calls himself a king. I call myself Queen of the Nile, but the last time I looked there isn't a crown under my pillow.
Deepak Chopra
#84. When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.
Bruno Tonioli
#85. With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.
Pietro Aretino
#86. You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.
Joseph Campbell
#87. Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
Edward Thorndike
#88. When no one else could see, he could see: and that is what it means to be a king.
Hilary Mantel
#89. A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
Alexander Pope
#90. Were I not a king, I would be a university man.
King James I
#91. Ronald Reagan?wasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.
Tip O'Neill
#92. To be a queen , do you have to rule a country or marry a king? Not necessarily---there are other ways to be considered royal today. For example, take Elizabeth Taylor or Jacqueline Onassis. Would you dare to call either of these grand dames less than regal?
Kris Waldherr
#93. No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.
Blaise Pascal
#94. Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.
Omar Khayyam
#95. The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.
Charles Caleb Colton
#96. Because a king maker would always choose the weaker man. The weaker the man, the easier he is to control.' Damen
C.S. Pacat
#97. Tell him he should be pleased. As many times as I've fucked you, you're likely with child. It's not every man who has the honor of raising a king's bastard. She looked at him stupidly, so he left her there.
George R R Martin
#98. I want to get more and more sophisticated. I'm ready to go from being a kid to being a king.
King Krule
#99. Simon said nothing, thinking of all the good men who'd died because this inept, faithless fool had been born a King's son.
Sharon Kay Penman
#100. Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.
Frank E. Peretti
