Kings Quotes:

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

topic: Kings, Men, Names, Scarecrow

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

topic: Kings, Government, Divine

Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

topic: Art, Kings, Dancing

Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

topic: Kings, Light, Degrees

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.

topic: Wise, Kings, Character

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.

topic: Kings, Women, Character

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.

topic: Kings, Enemy, Tools

Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

topic: Kings, Moments, Authorship

- Alexander the Great

topic: Kings, Army, Punishment

Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Kings, Character, Understanding

I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that.

- Alexis Arguello

topic: Kings, People, Way

Authority forgets a dying king.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Death, Kings, Dying

If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein; If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

source: Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

topic: Kings, Queens, Pain

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

topic: Kings, Men, Precedent

Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject.

- Allan McLeod Cormack

topic: Kings, Reading, Men, Solomon, Disenchanted

St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.

In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the altar! I shall not resist. He allows humans to keep him wherever they wish-in monstrance or tabernacle; to carry him in procession; to bring him into the homes of the sick and dying; to dispense him to all, whether saint or sinner. The gospel tells how marvelously he obeyed Mary and Joseph. Today he obeys every priest in the world.

topic: Kings, Pain, Loss, St Thomas, Augustine

Good friends find pleasure in one another's company. Let us know pleasure in the company of our best Friend, a Friend who can do everything for us, a friend who loves us beyond measure. Here in the Blessed Sacrament we can talk to him straight from the heart. We can open our souls to him, tell him what we need, beg him for powerful graces. We are perfectly free to approach the King of the universe with full confidence and without fear.

topic: Kings, Home, Sick, Sick And Dying

The sovereigns of the earth do not always grant audience readily; on the contrary, the King of Heaven, hidden under the eucharistic veils, is ready to receive anyone...

topic: Kings, Powerful, Blessed, Blessed Sacrament

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

topic: Kings, Heaven, Veils, Eucharistic

- Alveda King

topic: Senior, Kings, Daddy, Faith Hope And Love, Hope And Love

Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda,

- Alveda King

topic: Kings, Uncles, Father, Naacp, Dr Martin Luther King

The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants.

- Alyssa Milano

topic: Basketball, Football, Kings, Usc, Hockey Team

JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Kings, Utterance, Amusement, Jester

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Kings, Grease, Slippery

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

topic: Kings, Mistake, Moving, Rise And Fall, Great Empires

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Travel, Kings, Men, Noblemen, Tasting

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

- Amy Winehouse

topic: Kings, Writing, Stuff

It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.

- Anatoly Karpov

topic: Kings, Moving, Black, Gambit

But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

- Andre Agassi

topic: Sports, Kings, Years, Four Years

I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could.

- Andre Braugher

topic: Kings, Children, Way, March On Washington

I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. they say it closely resembles death.

- Andrei Tarkovsky

topic: Wise, Kings, Sleep, Sound Sleep

Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

- Andrew Carnegie

source: Andrew Carnegie (2007). “The Empire of Business”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Dream, Kings, Attention

One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.

- Andrew Gross

topic: Beautiful, Kings, Book, Beautiful Books

And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave As never yet the King of Glory wore, Alas! I find the serpent old, That, twining in his speckled breast, About the flowers disguised does fold With wreaths of fame and interest.

- Andrew Marvell

topic: Kings, Flower, Thinking

Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this is the royal spirit that the King of heaven displayed, that this is Godlike, to humble oneself, to become the servant of all!

- Andrew Murray

source: Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility and Absolute Surrender”, p.20, Hendrickson Publishers

topic: Kings, Believe, Humility, Meekness

Whenever anyone wants others to do their work they call upon their Altruism. 'Never mind your own needs,' they say, 'Think of the needs of... of whoever. Of the state. Of the poor. Of the Army, of the King. Of God.' The list goes on and on. How many catastrophes were launched with the words 'Think of yourself?' It's the king and country crowd who light the torch of destruction.

- Andrew Ryan

topic: Country, Kings, Army

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Kings, Choices, Dying

I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King recognized was the greatest step for society was that short step into the voting booth. If we are to be true to their courage and conviction, we must make that short step as easy as possible. Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

topic: Kings, Race, America

I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.

topic: Kings, Hands, Land, Voter Turnout, Voter Id

If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.

topic: Running, Kings, Writing

- Andy Eddy

topic: Kings, Queens, Princess, Kidnapped

I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.

- Andy Richter

topic: Kings, Looks, Way

We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.

- Andy Serkis

topic: Daughter, Mother, Kings, King Kong, Great Grandparents

By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called â€œCarl Sagan Memorial Station.â€ But with all due respect to Carl, I can call it whatever the hell I want. I'm the King of Mars.

- Andy Weir

topic: Kings, Memorial, Mars, Sagan

I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.

- Angela Bassett

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Kings, Knowing, People

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

- Angela Carter

topic: Kings, Stories, Sugar

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.

- Angela Davis

topic: Daughter, Kings, Queens, Kings And Queens, Middle Passage

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

- Angela Davis

topic: Kings, Moving, Thinking, Civil Right Movement, Trade Unions

The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.

- Angela Ruggiero

topic: Girl, Sports, Kings

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

topic: Kings, Reality, Men

I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.

- Angus Young

source: "Quotes". Angus Young Trivia page, www.rocklopedia.com. August 28, 2008.

topic: Kings, Thinking, Mind, Bb King

Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds to make their nests. Repeat, or the story will fall and all the king's horses and all the king's men. . . . Repeat, and cradle the pieces carefully, or events will scatter like marbles on a wooden floor.

- Ann-Marie MacDonald

source: Ann-Marie Macdonald (2011). “The Way the Crow Flies”, p.41, Vintage Canada

topic: Horse, Kings, Fall, Upkeep

Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are wont never to interpret any vision till they have first enquired the time at which it befell; for, if it were early, and of the morning sleep, they then thought that they might make a good interpretation thereof... in that the soul was then fitted for divination, and disincumbered. But if in the first sleep, or near midnight, while the soul was as yet clouded and drowned in libations, they, being wise, refused to give any interpretation.

- Anna Kingsford

topic: Wise, Morning, Kings, Informing, Clouded

I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Fashion, Kings, Queens, Whips, District 9

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

topic: Kings, Queens, Simple

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without a record are forgot, Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dust Nor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust; But he whose name is graved in the white stone Shall last and shine when all of these are gone.

- Anne Bradstreet

topic: Kings, Men, Dust, Sumptuous, Scapes

To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things,

- Anne Bradstreet

topic: Kings, War, Mean

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

- Anne Rice

topic: Kings, Book, Reading

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

- Anne Rice

topic: Kings, Hands, People

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

topic: Kings, Hem, Stones, Handkerchiefs

J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.

- Ansen Dibell

source: Ansen Dibell (1988). “Plot”, Writers Digest Books

topic: Kings, Moving, Book, Ruffian, Strider

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Kings, Thinking, Alternatives

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

- Anthony Giddens

topic: Kings, Nightmare, Luther

My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeetâ€¦oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool.

- Anthony Jeselnik

topic: Girlfriend, Kings, Bird, Ex Girlfriend, Parakeets

Larry King is so old, he's actually one of the Jews that killed Christ.

- Anthony Jeselnik

topic: Kings, Christ, Jew

Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.

- Anthony Santasiere

topic: Kings, Delicacy, Chess

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

- Antonia Fraser

topic: Kings, Making Love, Wells

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Kings, America, Directors

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

- Antony Hewish

topic: Kings, College, Cambridge

As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird accidentally turns into the wheel rather than away from it. A gentle crunch. The car passes. A shape like a discarded napkin left in the road. Still perfectly white, no red stains, but bearing no relation anymore to the shape of a bird. A trail of white feathers flutter down the road after the car. The suddeness is very upsetting. That gentle crunch.

- Antony Sher

topic: Beautiful, Kings, Sunday, Discarded, Crunch

Kings that made laws, first broke 'em ...

- Aphra Behn

source: Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.2843, Delphi Classics

topic: Kings, Law, Ems

Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf predicted the Taliban will fall for hiding Osama bin Laden. Ex-king Zahir Shah is standing by to replace Mullah Mohammed Omar. And the most ominous sign of all, President Bush has learned all their names.

- Argus Hamilton

topic: Kings, Fall, Names, Musharraf, Zahir

I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.

- Ariel Sharon

topic: Kings, Queens, Years

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

topic: Kings, Tyrants, Lists

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

topic: Kings, Order, Law

Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!

- Aron Nimzowitsch

topic: Kings, Chess, Faces

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

- Aron Nimzowitsch

topic: Stars, Kings, Actors, Endgame

The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super', in the endgame on the other hand - on of the 'principals'. We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line.

- Aron Nimzowitsch

topic: Kings, Fighting, Hands, Endgame

The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by usage no longer means anything.... To use the word God is more than sloth, it is a refusal to think, a king of short cut, a hideous shorthand.

- Arthur Adamov

topic: God, Kings, Mean, Short Cuts, Shorthand

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.

- Arthur Balfour

source: "News Of The Week". The Spectator Magazine, No. 3,380 (p. 1), archive.spectator.co.uk. April 8, 1893.

topic: Kings, Majority, May, Tyranny Of The Majority

When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

- Arthur Bryant

topic: Kings, Royal, Hats

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.

- Arthur Helps

topic: Kings, War, Rome, Ancient Rome

The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story, and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.

- Arthur Miller

topic: Kings, Play, People

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

topic: Kings, Heart, Men, Average Man

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!

- Arthur Rimbaud

topic: Love, Kings, Men, Great Faith

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

- Arturo Pérez-Reverte

source: Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1994). “The Flanders Panel”, Harvill Press

topic: Art, Kings, Father

I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.

- Asafa Powell

topic: Kings, Thinking, Want, Sprint

The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

- Ashley Montagu

topic: Kings, Appreciate, World

Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.

- Ashot Nadanian

source: Interview at S'pore Chess News, August 23, 2010.

topic: Kings, Pieces, Opponents

You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.

- Astrid Lindgren

source: Astrid Lindgren (1998). “Pippi Goes to School”

topic: Mother, Teacher, Kings, Cannibal

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

- Auguste Comte

topic: Kings, Humanity, Atheism

I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.

- Augustus

source: "Divus Augustus". Book by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus translated by Robert Graves, 1957.

topic: Kings

We [Americans] know Martin Luther King Jr. as a statue. We know him as a holiday. We know him as a speech. We don't know him as a man. Most people don't even know the whole speech, just "I have a dream." They don't know what his speaking voice was like, how he looked at his wife, or that he had four kids.

- Ava DuVernay

topic: Dream, Kings, Kids

Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues

I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.

topic: Brother, Kings, Blood

I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!

topic: Kings, Play, Guy

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

topic: Kings, Cutting, Guitar, Whisky, Crossover