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Quotes About King

It wasn't the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they've played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.
~ David Thewlis
Summer in Seattle allows me to indulge in some of the region's top culinary delights - I'm talking about wild king salmon and fresh, ripe Washington stone fruits and berries like cherries, peaches, plums, and blueberries.
~ Tom Douglas
I can assure the Marquis de Chasteler that it is my unalterable determination never to set foot on any territory which acknowledges obedience to His Majesty the King of Bohemia and Hungary.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
~ Dwight L. Moody
Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa.
~ Robert W. Chambers
At last I was King, King by my right in Hastur, King because I knew the mystery of the Hyades, and my mind had sounded the depths of the Lake of Hali. I was King! The first grey pencillings of dawn would raise a tempest which would shake two hemispheres.
~ Robert W. Chambers
But in my heart, when I said "my king," I meant Verity.
~ Robin Hobb
I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.
~ Robin Hobb
As you will, King Fitz.
~ Robin Hobb
The King's tool. I see.' An oppression settle over me. My brief glimpse of blue skies arching over yellow roads and me travelling down them astride Sooty suddenly vanished. I thought of the hounds in their kennels instead, or of the hawk, hooded and strapped, that rode on the King's wrist and was loosed only to do the King's will.
~ Robin Hobb
And he is a Farseer," Dutiful suddenly interjected, startling both of us. "One whose vow to his family has already cost him many things. So, this time, as your prince, I command this, FitzChivalry Farseer. Keep your vow, to yourself. Be as true to your own heart as you were to Verity's, and to King Shrewd's before him. That is the command of your king.
~ Robin Hobb
Vlci žádného krále nemají.
~ Robin Hobb
Sometimes, it would be much easier to die for one's king than to give one's life for him.
~ Robin Hobb
Boy," Chade remarked quietly. "Never pretend we are anything but what we are. Assassins. Not merciful agents of a wise king. Political assassins dealing death for the furtherance of our monarchy. That is what we are.
~ Robin Hobb
God's time for mercy will come in fact, it has alredy come of our time for believing has arrived Ask in faith without wavering, but never cease to petition the king
~ Robin Jones
but the King was ill throughout much of the spring and summer, suffering from lassitude and depression. A great army was mustered at York and then had to be sent home again because the King was too listless to determine how they should advance.
~ Lisa Hilton
King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Servants ran to wake the young king, Tamar, already awake and watching from his balcony. Curious, naturally. Not altogether pleased. No more than anyone would be, jolted out of a sound sleep by unexpected elephants.
~ Lloyd Alexander
he elaborated the fashionable argument that the colonies owed their allegiance to the British king, not to Parliament. The point was critical, for if the colonies were linked only to the king, they could, theoretically, wriggle free from parliamentary control while creating some form of commonwealth status in the British empire.
~ Ron Chernow
On July 5, the Second Continental Congress made one final feeble effort to ward off further hostilities when it endorsed the Olive Branch Petition, urging a negotiated solution to the conflict with England. The document professed loyalty to the king and tactfully blamed his "artful and cruel" ministers.
~ Ron Chernow
a beggar on earth than a king in the realm of shades.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Or ever the knightly years were gone      With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon
~ Rudyard Kipling
Sleepest thou still, Shere Khan? Wake, oh, wake! Here come I, and the bulls are behind. Rama, the King of the Buffaloes, stamped with his foot. Waters of the Waingunga, whither went Shere Khan?
~ Rudyard Kipling
For these simples used aright Shall restore a failing sight. These shall cleanse and purify Webbed and inward-turning eye; These shall show thee treasure hid, Thy familiar fields amid, At thy threshold, on thy hearth, Or about thy daily path; And reveal (which is thy need) Every man a King indeed!
~ Rudyard Kipling