Quotes About Kings

The key verse to the Book of Daniel is Daniel 2:44: "And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom,which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Groups of children gathered around them and gave them flowers and placed colored ribbons at their feet. After they were blessed at the wedding, they had a merry celebration, but the false mother and false bride had to leave. And the lips are still warm on the last person who told this tale. -The Children Of The Two Kings

If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.

L'éxactitude est la politesse des rois" (Punctuality is the good manners of kings). That

The French say, "L'éxactitude est la politesse des rois" (Punctuality is the good manners of kings).

A Fascist, however, expects the crowd to have his back. Where kings try to settle people down, Fascists stir them up so that when the fighting begins, their foot soldiers have the will and the firepower to strike first.

Modern dictators tend to weary of their citizens, which is why they create royal guards and other elite security units to ensure their personal safety. A fascist, however, expects the crowd to have his back. Where kings try settle people down, fascists stir them up so that when the fighting begins their foot soldiers have the will and fighting power to strike first.

There was violence in that room, with so many princes and heroes and kings competing for a single prize, but we knew how to ape civilization.

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

But, when to Sin our byast Nature leans, The carefull Devil is still at hand with means; And providently Pimps for ill desires: The Good old Cause reviv'd, a Plot requires. Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up Common-wealths, and ruin Kings.

But war was the "sport of kings." And

These Princes of Maine, these Kings of New England, these orphans of Saint Cloud's - whoever they were, they were the heroes of their own lives. That much Homer could see in the darkness, that much Dr. Larch, like a father, gave him.

Good night you Kings of New England. You Princes of Maine. Who knows what book this quote comes from?

X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—"La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!" XI. I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill's side. XII. And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing.

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

I felt sorry for the other kings who had to fight for their authority or wore it poorly, their gestures jagged and rough. With Achilles it was graceful as a blessing, and the men lifted their faces to it as they would a to priest.

I have long known about madmen and kings; I have long known about feeling real. I have long been lucky enough to feel real, no matter what diminishments or depressions have come my way. And I have long known that the moment of queer pride is a refusal to be shamed by witnessing the other as being ashamed of you.

With the trident scepter of Poseidon these kings held sway over the inhabitants of the seven small and three great islands comprising Atlantis. Philosophically, the ten islands symbolize the triune powers of the Superior Deity and the seven regents who bow before His eternal throne.

at least three of these men had previously been pleased to describe themselves as kings of Sussex.

he was extremely powerful – arguably the most powerful of all the English kings before the Norman Conquest.

the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed.

And there is no small consolation in a due apprehension of that spiritual dignity which ensues hereon; for when they meet with the greatest troubles and the most contemptuous scorns in this world, a due apprehension of their acceptance with God, as being made kings and priests unto him, yields them a refreshment which the world knows nothing of, and which themselves are not able to express.

Present day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation, and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.

And of course they were descended from the ancient kings of Ireland, as every Irishman is.