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Quotes About King

Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King.
~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?
~ Pepin the Short
The king who has the broad bean does not have one whole wafer. (Le roi qui a la fève - N'a la galette entière.)
~ Charles de Leusse
The king shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! Thou hast given him his heart's desire and hast not withheld the request of his lips.
~ Bible
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail—its roof may shake—the wind may blow through it—the storm may enter—the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter—all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
~ William Pitt (Earl of Chatham)
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judgeThat no king can corrupt.
~ William Shakespeare
There's such divinity doth hedge a king,That treason can but peep to what it would.
~ William Shakespeare
Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.
~ William Shakespeare
O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
~ William Shakespeare
All places that the eye of heaven visitsAre to a wise man ports and happy havens.Teach thy necessity to reason thus;There is no virtue like necessity.Think not the king did banish thee,But thou the king.
~ William Shakespeare
The king's name is a tower of strength.
~ William Shakespeare
So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve,Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none.God save the king! Will no man say, amen?
~ William Shakespeare
A king of shreds and patches.
~ William Shakespeare
In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter.
~ William Shakespeare
The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
~ William Shakespeare
Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?
~ William Steig
It was the ruling King of Bhutan himself who, in the 1980s, set up a system that measured national advancement according to Gross National Happiness rather than Gross Domestic Product.
~ David Michie
yet, the sense of despair did not prevent a large number of Jews from taking leave and creating a new Sephardic diaspora. Initially, the largest group of exiles, perhaps 25,000, made their way to neighboring Portugal, where they stayed until the Portuguese king, son-in-law of Ferdinand and Isabella
~ David N. Myers
He is not a president who is voted into power via a democratic process. He is not a prime minister acting on behalf of some heavenly parliament, nor is He a CEO. God does not rule as a dictator, usurping authority and maintaining power through a reign of terror. No. He is King.
~ David Ruis
The Italian king of the dance floor has a deep-mahogany spray tan, shiny slicked-back hair and the most dazzlingly white teeth you ever did see.
~ David Walliams
all the king's doctors and all the king's pills couldn't make Frank's waking nightmares go away.
~ David Wong
My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.
~ Anonymous
If that king was unsuitable in his service and duty...then his place will never be vacant and a foot soldier will lead the way though he remains nameless
~ Prakhar Singh
If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan