Top 83 Quotes About Good Kings
#1. There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.
Sarah Moore Grimke
#2. Many good men have been bad kings, Maester Aemon used to say, and some bad men have been good kings.
George R R Martin
#3. 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
#4. There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.
George R R Martin
#5. Forget your pride (what have you to be proud of?) and forget your anger (who has done you wrong?) and accept the mercy of these good kings.
C.S. Lewis
#6. Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood
KRS-One
#8. The people have a right supreme
To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,
Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.
Successionm for the general good design'd,
In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.
John Dryden
#9. The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing with our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia.
Thabo Mbeki
#10. The Book of Mormon is so good it makes me f**king angry.
Jon Stewart
#11. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. 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
#13. I have nothing to make me feel good, except for you. The last thing I want to do is turn you into my new drug of choice.
Collette West
#14. 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
#15. The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
Rita Mae Brown
#16. The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.
Gautama Buddha
#17. As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and evil is murky indeed; and nothing goes quite as we expect. With eye-popping plot twists and rollicking good action, Half a King is definitely a full adventure.
Rick Riordan
#19. I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.
Angie Stone
#20. 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
#21. I've been working through Maurice Druon's 'Accursed Kings' series. They come highly recommended from George R. R. Martin, and for good reason.
Victoria Aveyard
#22. Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.
Jennifer Donnelly
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable," she had told Richard. "You can find anyone in it, from duchesses to whores, from tramps to kings.
Rumer Godden
#26. All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.
J.R. Ward
#27. George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.
A.J.P. Taylor
#28. Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.
Rick DeMarinis
#29. A good simile,
as concise as a king's declaration of love.
Laurence Sterne
#30. To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.
James Kenneth Stephen
#31. In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.
Shane Claiborne
#32. I admire Kings of Leon. I think their records are amazing. Just from hanging out with them, I can say they're good guys. It's cool to see that they get to do what they love. But I think they clearly have an appreciation for where they came from, and it has shaped who they are.
Nick Jonas
#33. It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.
Bertrand Russell
#34. A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.
Thomas Jefferson
#35. ANOINT, v.t.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good.
Liu Shaoqi
#36. I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.
Bridget Carpenter
#37. Dead kings were honored in the Six Kingdoms only insofar as they had the good sense to stop walking around above ground.
Robert Kroese
#38. 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
#39. The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
Jonathan Swift
#40. I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.
Sean Patrick Flanery
#41. I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.
Big Sean
#42. Peace on earth, good will to men
From Heaven's all - gracious King
Dobie Gray
#43. The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.
Anne Boleyn
#44. I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles.
Marlon Wayans
#45. I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.
Calvin Coolidge
#46. It's his show and I'm just trying to make him look good. If we were the same age there might be a little tension, but I'm on my way out ... I am here to serve your every need, King James.
Shaquille O'Neal
#47. A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#48. The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.
John Milton
#49. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object
Abraham Lincoln
#50. Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).
Julian Casablancas
#51. Farinata and Tegghiaio, men of good blood, Jacopo Rusticucci, Arrigo, Mosca, and the others who set their hearts on doing good - where are they now whose high deeds might be-gem the crown of kings? I long to know their fate. Does Heaven soothe or Hell envenom them?
Dante Alighieri
#52. Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in ... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
Jane Austen
#53. I am made Hand of the King which gives me an enormous amount of power, which I use quite ruthlessly - but skilfully - and Dame Diana Rigg joins us [playing political mastermind the Queen of Thorns] and we have a couple of really good sparring moments.
Charles Dance
#54. 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
#55. I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King would be a good way to tie them all together.
Iron & Wine
#56. 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
#57. The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.
Gautama Buddha
#58. Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#59. Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.
Diogenes
#60. I die the kings good servant, but God's first.
Thomas More
#61. Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.
Louis L'Amour
#62. I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.
Rafe Esquith
#64. We also call upon the king to hand over power to the political parties and for the political parties to shoulder their responsibility and turn the people's demands for democracy and good governance into reality.
Joseph Adam Ereli
#65. In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we're fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.
Melina Marchetta
#66. Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God, and the grace of the King
Jimi Hendrix
#67. Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means he, not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.
Warren Ellis
#68. The American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken up arms and seceded yet.
Lewis Goldberg
#69. Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.
Thomas Hardy
#70. Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.
Robert Herrick
#71. Don King was good to me through my years as champion, but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He's a wheeler dealer and you've got to be careful. He's a great con artist.
Larry Holmes
#72. Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.
Mark Twain
#73. Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King, not Stalin, Bevins, or Truman. That He has all things in His hands, that 'all things work together for good for those that love Him.
Dorothy Day
#75. Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the Greek warriors around Troy, and King of Ithaca. He was subjected to many trials, but with wisdom and courage came through them all ... he is a complete man as well, a good man.
James Joyce
#76. If brains have brought us to what we are in now, I think it is time to allow our hearts to speak. When our sons are killed by the millions, let us, mothers, only try to do good by going to the kings and emperors without any other danger than a refusal.
Rosika Schwimmer
#77. When kings the sword of justice first lay down,
They are no kings, though they possess the crown.
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.
Daniel Defoe
#78. It is we who create value and our desires which confer value. In this realm we are kings, and we debase our kingship if we bow down to Nature. It is for us to determine the good life, not for Nature - not even for Nature personified as God.
Bertrand Russell
#79. Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust
#81. Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.
Muhammad Ali
#82. King Hussein never lost his faith, no matter how difficult and unbearable and cruel the circumstances could be. I always remember that. It helps me get through everything. It's a way of trying to keep that positive spirit alive for as many people as we can touch. I think that's good for the world.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#83. Someone maybe be able to meditate well, but if they can't manifest that meditation in just good common sense by loving and being king to those who are around them, then I can't say they're spiritually developed.
Frederick Lenz
