Quotes About Authority

He waved at his attendants. I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back. If sterner measures are called for, we can find a larger ball and chain. The queen turned and disappeared into the partment. Oh, dear, Eugenides muttered as he followed...The queen's sterner measures, dispensed by the Eddisian Ambassador, arrived before dawn.

In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.

If the king could make a throne seem like a stool fit for a printer's apprentice, the queen could make a rumpled bedspread into a throne.

Unkingly, in so many ways, My King.

Of course," she said, "Your Majesty." I admired the way she could make the words sound so much like "You Idiot.

Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.

Kings don't move mountains as a favor to a friend

Nahuseresh tells me I am not king. Well see if he really prefers the Thief.

Do not offend one power to attain the favor of another.

The Attolians liked to point out with a snicker that there was no sign anywhere of the king's hand at work.

The only thing I knew was that I didn't know anything, really, about the king of the Attolians, and I didn't trust him.

Weak kings who lost their tempers were notoriously destructive.

Your Majesty! Hilarion was close to begging. Everyone is waiting. Tell them I died. Your Majesty... Died, Hilarion. In the night, peacefully. Why would I do that? Because then you could all go away and leave me alone.

She is not so secure on her throne that she can risk offending her people's gods. No woman can be.

Nahuseresh tells me I am not king. We'll see if he really prefers the Thief.

Speaking of the king to the queen--He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

Will you sit down and stop shouting?" she asked. "I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.

That one"—he nodded toward the closed door—"will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.

My father thinks that we should forget the old gods. He says that a country with two sets of gods is like a country with two kings. No one knows which to be loyal to.

And she had the most appealing of feminine virtues, especially in a queen. She's easily led.

Sang raja tidak perlu menggantungnya, karena dia akan mati kelelahan dalam waktu satu bulan.

No, he said, and he snapped his fingers. You'll come work for me at K----. And be a real associate editor. I said, I could bring you up on charges for that. What? Work harassment in the sexual place.

Be there, or Mal will find you," he said to his squat little lab partner, Le Fou Deux, as they both dissected a frog that would never turn into a prince in Unnatural Biology class. "Be there, or Mal will find you and ban you from the city streets," he whispered to the Gastons as they took turns stuffing each other in doomball nets in PE.

No hay nada en todo el mundo que tenga más relevancia que saber que tú tienes razón y que las masas están equivocadas y, aun así, que las masas te arrollen».