Top 34 Quotes About Bad Kings
#1. Many good men have been bad kings, Maester Aemon used to say, and some bad men have been good kings.
George R R Martin
#2. The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.
Saint Augustine
#3. They ate silently for a few minutes as she studied him.
"I need a shave," he said when he caught her staring.
She lifted a shoulder in a shrug. "It's not bad."
"I'd scrape your delicate skin if I tried to kiss you."
"Want to find out?" she asked with a mischievous smile.
Donna Grant
#4. What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.
Antonio Damasio
#5. The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.
Philip Sidney
#7. He's bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest dude in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junk yard dog.
Jim Croce
#8. Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.
Vladimir Putin
#9. It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at leastthat might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.
Lord Chesterfield
#10. I have a dream. With that one sentence, Martin Luther King touched and empowered an entire nation. You know what else he did? He made everybody else without dreams feel real bad.
Christopher Titus
#11. Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.
Aristotle.
#12. It is a bad year for kings," said Gondy, shaking his head; "look at England, madame."
"Yes; but fortunately we have no Oliver Cromwell in France," replied the Queen.
"Who knows?" said Gondy; "such men are like thunderbolts - one recognized them only when they have struck.
Alexandre Dumas
#13. I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.
Garry Kasparov
#14. Arya did not dare [take a bath], even though she smelled as bad as Yoren by now, all sour and stinky. Some of the creatures living in her clothes had come all the way from Flea Bottom with her; it didn't seem right to drown them.
George R R Martin
#15. It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.
Chanakya
#16. God turned his face the other way, and the earth was in darkness. An eclipse of God ... an eclipse of God
Nikos Kazantzakis
#17. When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues? Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today?
Ike Turner
#18. Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.
Andrew Card
#19. Love is ... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.
Mike Oldfield
#20. Be smart and take your pert little ass out the door and away from danger.
Pert little ass? Frowning, she looked behind herself. From what she could see, her ass - pert or otherwise - looked nonexistent thanks to the shape of her skirt.
Lori Foster
#21. You mean one human is good, but a hundred humans is bad?" "Exactly. One human is just a person. A hundred humans make a society. And societies have kings, and religions and priests, and all these other things serrin completely fail to understand
Joel Shepherd
#22. If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages ... change.
Thomas Friedman
#23. Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
Andrew Young
#24. It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.
Homer
#25. Good men can make terrible kings,' Tindwyl noted.
'But bad men cannot make good kings.' Sazed said. 'It is better to start with a good man and work on the rest, I think.
Brandon Sanderson
#26. I don't have to ask to know that something bad happened in your past."
"Because I doona smile?"
Her smile was sad when her gaze met his. "It's your eyes. Your view of the world is colored."
"As is yours.
Donna Grant
#27. From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.
John Gay
#28. Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust
#29. In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
Xun Zi
#30. We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
Michel De Montaigne
#31. I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I'm here to tell you I'm quite the opposite in real life. In fact I'm a f**king fantastic lover.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#32. The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.
Arthur Balfour
#33. Since bad men find the rule of kings no less burdensome than that of tyrants, the recognition of the right of private citizens to kill tyrants involves rather more chance of losing a king than of being relieved of a tyrant.
William Archibald Dunning
#34. Man's life is but a jest,
A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.
George Walter
