Top 100 Quotes About Kings
#1. We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
#2. God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#3. To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.
Sidney Sheldon
#4. A thousand stories had painted cities in his mind, the great cities of kings and queens, of thrones and powers and legends, and Caemlyn fit into those mind-deep pictures and water fits into a jug.
Robert Jordan
#5. Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood
KRS-One
#7. When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
Imelda Marcos
#8. Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. Took the end of the world to make us kings for a day.
Peter Heller
#10. I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages.
Brian Cox
#11. We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.
Walt Disney
#12. He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?
Geraldine Brooks
#13. After so many years drifting, not connected to anything, I'm finally tethered. Safe and loved, in the middle.
We start senior year like kings, like nothing can ever tear us apart.
We're wrong.
Abigail Haas
#14. It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.
Arthur Miller
#15. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.
William Cowper
#16. WHEN WE SEEK TO RULE ONLY OURSELVES, WE ARE EACH OF US KINGS.
Nicholas Eames
#17. 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
#18. When the Eternal bows the skies
To visit earthly things,
With scorn divine he turns his eyes
From towers of haughty kings.
He bids his awful chariot roll
Far downward from the skies,
To visit every humble soul,
With pleasure in his eyes.
Isaac Watts
#19. All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.
Martin Luther
#20. Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
Kate Williams
#21. Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
John Dryden
#22. This kitchen is completely calm. Some of the old-fashioned chefs - they become kings in their kitchen, they've got to be called chef. But I don't care if someone calls me chef or Heston, it really doesn't bother me.
Heston Blumenthal
#23. They were the lowest in the army, and yet they bore the weight of kings.
Brandon Sanderson
#24. The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?
John Adams
#25. Having lived with kings, I have become a king in my own home.
Voltaire
#26. Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
Alexander Pope
#27. It seems to me that kings and queens can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who.
Robert Jordan
#29. People who do not believe in the same god or obey the same king are more than willing to use the same money. Osama Bin Laden, for all his hatred of American culture, American religion and American politics, was very fond of American dollars. How did money succeed where gods and kings failed?
Yuval Noah Harari
#30. After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples; they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit:
Lewis Carroll
#31. There really is no cost, only the privilege of serving the King of Kings.
Helen Roseveare
#32. THIS WORLD IS FULL OF KINGS AND QUEENS WHO'LL BLIND YOUR EYES AND STEAL YOUR DREAMS. IT'S HEAVEN AND HELL. ,,/ ,,/
Ronnie James Dio
#34. What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
Laozi
#35. One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
Marquis De Sade
#36. English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs.
Peter Prasad
#37. 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
#38. They were young and loud and triumphant, and the Kings of Henrietta.
Maggie Stiefvater
#39. When your blood decides the fate of kings, better to die a lion than a lamb.
Elisabetta L. Faenza
#40. If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.
Bert Sugar
#41. Here's to the charlatans, the pretenders, the pawns and the knights. For without them, this play would have no kings.
Atticus
#42. Look not thou on beauty's charming;
Sit thou still when kings are arming;
Taste not when the wine-cup glistens;
Speak not when the people listens
Walter Scott
#43. Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.
Wolves have no kings
Robin Hobb
#44. A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.
John Connolly
#45. We Three Kings of Leicester Square,
Selling ladies' underwear,
So fantastic, no elastic,
Only tuppence a pair.
Alan Bradley
#46. If you serve the king of kings, the rest will serve you, money, success, prosperity, etc
Sunday Adelaja
#47. This country has not been made by politicians, kings or governments. It has been made by farmers, labourers, our mothers and sisters and youth.
Narendra Modi
#48. Weese," she would whisper, first of all. "Dunsen, Chiswyck, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Gregor, Ser Armory, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei." - Arya Stark, A Clash of Kings
George R R Martin
#49. The outsiders have become kings and queens of the castle. It is a whole lot easier to sit outside the tent and throw firecrackers inside; it is much, much harder to sit inside the tent and govern not only your enemies, but your close friends as well.
Hal Rothman
#50. The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
Honore De Balzac
#51. For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.
Thomas Malory
#52. It was an act of defiance against your leaders ... Ready to stifle the truth, and for what? To be kings of their tiny world?Its ridiculous.
Veronica Roth
#53. He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of themselves use the terms "lonely," "friendless," "of small account." Is not this making humility their base?
Laozi
#54. EPIC NAPPING! A NAP THAT WILL BE IMMORTALIZED FOR ALL TIME! A NAP FIT FOR THE KINGS OF ALL BEASTS!
Dixie Lyle
#55. Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed.
Tom Shales
#56. What else?"
Nothing," Dogger said. "Just sign it. "Kings prefer brevity.
Alan Bradley
#57. To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
William Hazlitt
#58. There is the house whose people sit in darkness; dust is their food and clay is their meat. They are clothed like birds with wings for covering, they see no light, they sit in darkness. I entered the house of dust and I saw the kings of the earth, their crowns put away for ever ...
Anonymous
#59. So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.
Chris Roberson
#60. Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.
Abraham Lincoln
#61. I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through time eternal.
Brigit Of Kildare
#62. His seed will issue kings, but he will never reign
For she would be Queen of Lumatere.
But he would be king to her.
Melina Marchetta
#63. The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#64. Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.
Ezra Pound
#67. 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
#68. Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.
Elizabeth I
#69. Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of thrones. If you like 'A Song of Ice and Fire', you will love 'The Accursed Kings'.
George R R Martin
#70. Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it
Otto Von Bismarck
#71. We are called to destroy the works of the devil and to dominate the earth. We are the kings of this earth!
Sunday Adelaja
#72. A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
Plato
#74. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
Edmund Burke
#75. Perhaps this was what Queens did. Perhaps they held their Kings in the darkness, deep within their castles and allowed them that moment of weakness they could never show to anyone else. Perhaps they gave strength to their Kings, because everyone else only took it from them.
David Gaider
#76. She was not a rebel princess, shattering enemy castles and killing kings. She was a force of nature. She was a calamity and a commander of immortal warriors of legend.
Sarah J. Maas
#77. I am fighting royalty. I have gypsy kings on both sides of the family.
Tyson Fury
#78. I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.
Mira Grant
#79. The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).
John Piper
#80. I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.
Joel Salatin
#81. Not today!" Artemus said. "No, thank you! Too many events this decade. Perhaps later! Cannot do the shock! Thank you for your time."
He had been an adviser to kings.
Maggie Stiefvater
#82. The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.
George R R Martin
#83. Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights.
Emile Zola
#84. 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
#87. Generals, admirals, kings, and presidents make history; words change history. In more than two centuries of watching, at least that has not changed. -- Joshua Augustus Johnson. "Appomattox
Lloyd Vancil
#88. All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains ...
Michael Moorcock
#89. The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
Lily Tomlin
#92. For why should not the wine of their own country satisfy men's desires, unless they were to import water also, like the foolish Persian kings?
Clement Of Alexandria
#93. Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.
Harry Houdini
#95. There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.
Paul Delaroche
#96. Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
William Penn
#97. The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.
Bernard Cornwell
#98. I have been preaching repentance for seventy years; there are thousands of ministers of the Gospel all over this planet preaching repentance this very hour ... and most of the time the world has laughed in the face of the King of kings.
Billy Graham
#99. Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?
William Shakespeare
#100. 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
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