Quotes About King

Nevertheless, for all Cnut's determination to portray himself as a traditional Old English king, his reign had altered English society dramatically.

Once a religious institution acquired a charter (or boc) from the king,

Moreover, each man's malevolence quite involuntarily exaggerated the other's importance, as if the chief of villains were confronting the king of imbeciles.

So farwel Hope, and with Hope farwel Fear, Farwel Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good; by thee at least Divided Empire with Heav'ns King I hold By thee, and more then half perhaps will reigne; As Man ere long, and this new World shall know. Thus

So spake Israel's true king, and to the Fiend Made answer meet, that made void all his wiles. So fares it, when with truth falsehood contends.

Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.

This is beyond understanding. said the king. You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself? And Merlin said quietly, Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through time eternal.

Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

On the king's gate the moss grew gray;The king came not. They called him deadAnd made his eldest son one daySlave in his father's stead.

Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings.

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

Self-centeredness thus making each man a king, enabling him to see the ordered ranks of the universe beneath him,

Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

Silver hidden in the gold, Young man hidden in the old, Laughing lord with weeping eyes, Bring king and ring before sunrise! -Hilarion, The Great and Terrible Quest

It seems there was a custom in Ireland at this time of showing obeisance to your king by sucking his nipples. No nipples, you could not be a king.

My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.