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Quotes About King

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
~ Pietro Aretino
In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter
~ William Shakespeare
He who reigns within himself, and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
~ John Milton
Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad but bread is king.
~ Louis Bromfield
For a quart of Ale is a meal for a King.
~ William Shakespeare
Who can say when subversive play will subvert its own rules? Sometimes a jester's wit might cut too close to the bone and the king would lop off his head. The uncertainty — that straddling of the boundaries of real and unreal — is a source of the peculiar emotional power of subversive play.
~ Unknown
When Satan's origin is unveiled, he is pictured as the king of Tyre in Ezekiel 28 and the king of Babylon in Isaiah 14. So it's clear from the outset that Satan influences world leaders.
~ Unknown
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
~ Mark Van Doren
The food on the plane was fit for a king. "Here, King!"
~ Henny Youngman
. . . you worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry King was all about business.
~ Terry Pratchett, Making Money
So a man jumps into a taxi and says King Arthur's close and the taxi driver says, don't worry we'll lose him at the next lights.
~ Tommy Cooper
Treat me like an option I'll make forgetting you my priority. Treat me like a queen and I'll make you feel like a king.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Unknown
TRACKER: It was the year your most excellent King shat his most excellent life out in the most excellent shit pit. INQUEST: Speaking ill of the King is punishable by death in the South Kingdom. TRACKER: He's a corpse, not a king.
~ Marlon James
You are so right, my love, she thought in wild despair. No man, no king, no ghost is strong enough to come between us; only the indominable splendor of your honor, your pride, and your passion can accomplish that.
~ Unknown
King abhorred slavery. But he struggled over how to fight it while remaining true to the religious pacifism he had inherited from his grandmother.
~ Unknown
Citizens are not governed for their good and for the true glory of the supreme King when the secular authorities do not rule according to the divine Law and are not set to observe it themselves. For where God is not recognized and obedience to Him is not required before all things, there peace is not peace, justice is not justice, and that which should be profitable brings injury instead.
~ Unknown
Destiny requires you to follow the path you're on. But the path could be altered, if you set your mind to it. For me that meant holding out until the day when King Cnut owed me so much that he would have to award me an estate, land, and honor again.
~ Unknown
Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.
~ Martin Luther
In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.
~ Martin Luther
He lives and reigns who saved the three youths from the fiery furnace of the king of Babylon, and if He will not save me, my head is worth nothing compared with Christ.
~ Martin Luther
It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
~ Martin Scorsese
The Bible presents a grace-soaked, spectacular vision for female beauty. It insists that the King is enthralled—ENTHRALLED!—with the beauty of every woman who puts her faith in Him. We
~ Mary A. Kassian
I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow: it must have a throne all alone in the soul.
~ Samual Rutherford