Quotes About Kings

Rome rules by the power of violence, but the one who is the true King of kings and Lord of lords rules by virtue of his submission to death—precisely the opposite of armed violence against the empire. That is why he alone is worthy.

When I was a boy I once received, as a Christmas gift, a beautiful book of oriental fairy tales. The stories all took place in India. They told of mighty kings riding to war on elephants; of marble palaces with golden domes where lovely princesses were imprisoned; of magic music that came at midnight from an enchanted grove in the jungle.

Although the dominant pattern here was one of looting and carrying off the images of state deities, we also hear of Hindu kings destroying their enemies' temples.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light To stamp the seal of time in aged things To wake the morn and sentinel the night To wrong the wronger till he render right To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours And smear with dust their glittering golden towers

În lumea regilor È™i a curtenilor, nimeni nu spunea tot adev?rul, întotdeauna.

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

Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.

The most disgraceful thing for kings is to disdain learning and be afraid of science.

The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Feared by their breed and famous by their birth.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings,To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.

Thou [Death] setter up and plucker down of kings.

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings.

What infinite heart's easeMust kings neglect that private men enjoy!And what have kings that privates have not too,Save ceremony, save general ceremony?And what art thou, thou idol ceremony?What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st moreOf mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?What are thy rents? what are thy comings-in?O ceremony! show me but thy worth.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

O Kate! nice customs curtsy to great kings.

Mad world! mad kings, mad composition!

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

The chase, the sport of kings;Image of war, without its guilt.

All mankind look forward with pleasure to festival days, except kings; for their tables, being always supplied with abundance, admit of no addition on festive occasions; so that, first of all, in the pleasure derived from anticipation they are decidedly inferior to private individuals.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

The Stihls were doers. They carved out a place and a name for themselves in America when you Brits were cutting the heads off your kings.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

Kings and abbots are also men, and can fall to temptation.