Quotes About King

What's the difference between a Spartan king and a mid-ranker? One man will lob this query to his mate as they prepare to bed down in the open in a cold driving rain. His friend considers mock-theatrically for a moment. .'The king sleeps in that shithole over there' he replies. 'We sleep in this shithole over here.

A king does not expend his substance to enslave men, but by his conduct and example makes them free.

Who profits from a king's fidelity save generations a thousand years unborn, and which of his works will they recall at that remove, or care?

I will tell His Majesty what a king is. A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field.

it? The danger to you in Galilee has not fully passed, though it has lessened. Antipas is fully consumed by his lust to be named King of the Jews by Rome. Last week we came into Judea on our

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

Dr. Swift, as bitter as ever, had observed that the history of the Stuarts in their northern lands had been that the king had one legitimate child and a flock of bastards. Then he would die young, and violently, and the lairds would again give decisive proof of the proposition that being Regent of Scotland was a capital offence.

Above everyone, though, was the customer, the King of King's who was also the adversary.

By noon,the tide had turned. The drakars emblazoned with wolf and dragon joined the fleet of the Hawk as they set sail for the city of the king.

I would rather discover one cause than be the King of Persia.

emperador? —Antes de que el emperador os reciba, vos y yo tenemos que hablar; estoy seguro de que llegaremos a un acuerdo satisfactorio para vuestro rey y el mío. —Os recuerdo que sois francés como yo y estáis obligado a Luis. —¡Ah, mi buen rey Luis!

I desire the King's sanity as fervently as Your Majesty does." "I care not for his sanity. I care for his happiness. His soul. Let him be mad if mad is what he needs.

Is a broken king really better than a mad one?

You have half a husband, Charlotte. Half a life. I cannot give you the future you deserve. Not a full me. Not a full marriage. Only half. Half a man. Half a King. Half a life." "If what we have is half, then we shall make it the very best half. I love you. It is enough.

I'll be back soon," she said, hurrying toward the door. "Don't go anywhere." "Well, damn," he tried to joke, "there go my plans to visit the King.

Obviously a president can't rule as a king and ban all guns. But I think we need a president who is going to make sure that there is gun control and that people still feel like their freedoms are intact.

A true king never robs his people of peace.

The Reign of Cnut: King of England, Denmark and Norway (Alexander R. Rumble [coord.], Londres, 1994).

A worthy old scholar, criticising the king's penmanship, pointed out a fault. He, smiling, erased the word, but when the critic was gone, began to restore it, remarking that it was right, but it was better to spoil paper than the self-confidence of an old man.

I have been preaching repentance for seventy years; there are thousands of ministers of the Gospel all over this planet preaching repentance this very hour . . . and most of the time the world has laughed in the face of the King of kings.

The principal duty of the king is, to govern his people according to law.

For a tear is an intellectual thing, And a sigh is the sword of an Angel King, And the bitter groan of the martyr's woe Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow.

Content is King. Promotion is Queen

And when it was all over, the king and his retainers burst out laughing.