Quotes About Kings

The glories of our blood and stateAre shadows, not substantial things;There is no armor against fate;Death lays his icy hand on kings.

Presidents and Kings are not apt to see flaws in their own arguments," he wrote, "but fortunately for the Union, it had a President, at this critical juncture, who combined a logical intellect with an unselfish heart.

Why was it, Corvus wondered, as he stood before the august presence with a genial smile sculpted on his face, that one always whispered in the presence of kings and cretins?

A man should either not converse with kings at all, or say what is agreeable to them.

Doth someone say that there be gods above? There are not, no, there are not. let no fool, led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words No undue credence; for I say that kings Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities to waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those who live calm pious lives day by day.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you have less.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive

I had breathed in the atmosphere created by Henri Christophe, the monarch of incredible aims, much more surprising than all the kings invented by the surrealists.

Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life's little victories.

Contrary to Christian conceptions, the title "Son of God" was not a description of Jesus's filial connection to God but rather the traditional designation for Israel's kings.

No more client-kings. No more King of the Jews. Jerusalem now belonged wholly to Rome.

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

The gods don't care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.

It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.