Quotes About Kings

Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides.

Only God, no other kings!

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country that's out of kings.

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home

Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

Meek and drake happen to be two of the young kings with strong voices and followings that give people hope I hope they know this n b smart!

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.

True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes Gods and meaner creatures kings.

Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings.

Abject submission to the power on the throne which had been the rule of life in the ancient world since kings began, and was to be the rule of life in Asia for centuries to come, was cast off by the Greeks so easily, so lightly, hardly more than an echo of the contest has come down to us. In

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. I should, therefore, suspend my congratulations on the new liberty of France

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves and for all their posterity forever.

Once the monarchy was abolished, a decree was passed that there would be no more kings in Rome.

La Iglesia existe con el fin de atraer a los hombres a Dios, pero los obispos y los papas son hombres, igual que los reyes, y experimentan las mismas pasiones.

More important, however, Henry's book found its mark in Rome. He had long resented the pope's gift of glorious titles to the kings of Spain ("the Catholic King") and France ("the Most Christian King"), while England was left out. Now, finally and after some negotiation, Henry got his prize and became "Defender of the Faith.

The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.