Quotes About Kings And Peasants

#1. If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.

T. B. Joshua

#2. If a man seeks the Buddha, that man loses the Buddha.

Alan W. Watts

#3. This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

Patricia Briggs

#4. As far as I'm concerned, I've come to realize only just now that I'm fighting because of pride.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#5. The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.

Eyedea

#6. Tis Fate that flings the dice,
And as she flings
Of kings makes peasants,
And of peasants kings.

John Dryden

#7. There was a genocide unfolding against Bosnian Muslims and we, in the United Kingdom, were incredibly angered - a teenager at the time, 15 years old, so my young teenage mind processed that in a way typical to the very passionate and angry and black-and-white way that teenagers often can do.

Maajid Nawaz

#8. 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

#9. If walls could keep us small, peasants would all be tiny and kings as large as giants," said Ser Jorah. "I've seen huge men born in hovels, and dwarfs who dwelt in castles.

George R R Martin

#10. You meet a woman that seems so sweet, kind, loving and honest only to find she's just as big a lying cheating whore as the rest of them.

Maria Tahenakos

#11. We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#12. When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.

Mark Twain

#13. Where were the gods then? The gods don't care about men, no more than kings care
about peasants.

George R R Martin