Kings Quotes

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

The king is the man who can.

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.

But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.

As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God would vote for ought to be out of the question.

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.

Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.

An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

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.

I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.

Jesus our Lord is Prophet, Priest, and King. The concept is not new, yet many preachers never preach it, and many congregations never hear it.

You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.

I think the most fun I ever had was playing King Arthur in Spamalot on the West End.

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

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.

Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.

When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, "My God!" No king ever had anything like I have in my grocery store today.

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he is reckless, they will not only be reckless likewise, but also eat into his works.

disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.

Some must delve when the dawn is nigh; Some must toil when the noonday beams; But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh, Every man is a King of Dreams.

The way [Barack Obama] danced, it looked like he could dance in a circle with anyone from Chris Brown to ... well, I don't want to say Michael Jackson, because he's like the king.

Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.