Kings Quotes

The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

... 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.

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.

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.

All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.

That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--' 'I hate that.' King Midas & Lit

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

Right now at the announce table we've got two kings and a queen, I'll let you figure out who's who.

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

So a man jumps into a taxi and says "King Arthur's close" and the taxi driver says, "don't worry we'll lose him at the next lights".

Well Lord, I'm still on the case. I'm still doing what Dr. King and Pops want me to do. I'm still on that freedom highway, and I'm going to walk on it until Dr. King's dream is realized.

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank

King Henry VIII, who said to his lawyer, Forget the alimony, I've got a better idea. Never got a dinner!

I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.

I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

I do believe that the Kingdom of God is present wherever Jesus is king. That's my definition of the Kingdom of God.

Let's see what's going on over in Iraq. A Burger King has opened up and prostitutes are back on the street of Baghdad after 20 years. Fast food and hookers - they are truly living the American Dream.

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

Content has always driven the business. Now it's no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice.

Can Christ be in thou heart and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in thy soul and thou hear no scuffle?

What about King Tut’s tomb?” I protested. “That boy king?” Zia rolled her eyes. “Boring. You should see some of the good tombs.

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.

Everyone turns toward someone. Look for one scarred by the King's polo stick.

In open positions the safety of the King should be the first consideration.

Authority forgets a dying king.

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

I remember crying my eyes out when I watched the end of the Lion King

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.