Quotes About Ruler

One child is never enough for a monarch.

And love became the world's beginning and the world's ruler; but all its ways are full of flowers and blood, flowers and blood.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

Some day you'll sit on the throne and the truth will be what you make it.

A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

Only now and then had the scholar also become the ruler—Marcus Aurelius, Thomas More, Woodrow Wilson.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die... a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.

I will remember, Your Grace," said Sansa, though she had always heard that love was a surer route to the people's loyalty than fear. If I am ever a queen, I'll make them love me.

It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.

The king is my son!" Cersei rose to her feet. "Aye," her uncle said, "and from what I saw of Joffrey, you are as unfit a mother as you are a ruler.

The only way to keep your people loyal is to make certain they fear you more than they do the enemy.

Perhaps he did not think himself worthy of the King's Tower, or perhaps he did not care. That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.

The Iron Throne was forged with fire and steel and terror, it is said, but once the throne had cooled, it became the seat of justice for all Westeros.

For all her Targaryen blood, Dany had not the least idea of how to train a dragon.

Snow still chose to dwell behind the armory, in a pair of modest rooms previously occupied by the Watch's late blacksmith. Perhaps he did not think himself worthy of the King's Tower, or perhaps he did not care. That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.

Amongst those thus enslaved was Lady Johanna Swann, a fifteen-year-old niece of the Lord of Stonehelm. When her infamously niggardly uncle refused to pay the ransom, she was sold to a pillow house, where she rose to become the celebrated courtesan known as the Black Swan, and ruler of Lys in all but name. Alas, her tale, however fascinating, has no bearing upon our present history.)

Time is the king of men.

The King is dead! Long live the King!

The Queen is the ultimate dictator.

France's Charles VI was subject to fits of insanity and unable to rule.

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.