Kings Quotes - page 4

As during the time of kings it would have been naive to think that the king's firstborn son would be the fittest to rule, so in our time it is naive to think that the democratically elected ruler will be the fittest. The rule of succession is not a formula for identifying the best ruler, it is a formula for conferring legitimacy on someone or other and thus forestalling civil conflict. (J. M. Coetzee)
Any thing that proves that it is not in the power of Kings and Princes by their great armies to have every thing their own way is of such good example that without any good will to the French one can not help being delighted by it, and you know I have a natural partiality to what some people call rebels. View quote
Charles James Fox
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. View quote
Hesiod
Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail. View quote
Kathleen Raine
When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment. View quote
Terry Pratchett
He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany. View quote
Hermann Göring
The same Divine Compassion that blessed Dharma; saved Gajendra; restored Kuchela; and stood by Prahlada, has come to the Earth as the Refuge of the refugeless; as the Lord of Peace, Harmony and Righteousness; as the Lord of all the Worlds; as the Sath-Chith-Anandamurthi; and as the Puttaparthi Sathya Sai Sath-Chakravarthi - the King of Kings. View quote
Sathya Sai Baba
Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran, which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka, the Tao-te-king of Laotze, the Kings of Confucius, the Veda and the Avesta. (Max Müller)
My crown is in my heart, not on my head Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen my crown is call'd content A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. View quote
William Shakespeare
All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out. View quote
Mark Twain
It is an imprudence common to kings To listen to too much advice and to err in their choice. View quote
Pierre Corneille
O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire. View quote
Mike Tyson
And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. View quote
John Milton
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. View quote
Aldous Huxley
From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man's the noblest work of God." View quote
Robert Burns
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. View quote
Robert Burns
While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention. (Robert Burns)
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! View quote
John Keats
The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Aegistheus, the kings have another secret.... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men and to them alone to let him flee or to destroy him. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for. View quote
Adam Smith