Kings Quotes

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.

Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

Yes, Dr. King is pro-gun just as surely as Jesus would be pro-nails.

Writing is seduction.

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.

Comedy is king. It has to be.

Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.

I've got a new studio set up very much based around live mixing and also mixing analogue and digital systems. Inspired by the late King Tubby and Scientist.

Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred.

To the stupidity of men, " Dakota said, raising a glass. "And my brother, who is their king.

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by

In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings.

a king can only work with his best tools.

I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back.

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

- I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black! - No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.

Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.

The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing with our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia.

He also knows what king of protein I like, what T-shirts I like, how I like my dry cleaning to be done. He also knows how I like my stuff folded and put away into drawers.

I am the King of biting off more than I can chew.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.

I probably am. I think Paul Giamatti also said in an interview that I was "f--king crazy." I'm flattered by that. I want to be that guy who's nuts who makes people think.

Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?

No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.

... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.

Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.

Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.