“ In a few years there will be only five kings in the world — the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards. ”
- Farouk I- Copy
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“ There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ He is a king who fears nothing; he is a king who desires nothing! ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat. ”
- John Selden- Copy
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“ Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. ”
- Herbert Spencer- Copy
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“ Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. ”
- Frederick The Great- Copy
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“ Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. ”
- Charles James Fox- Copy
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“ Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. ”
- William Penn- Copy
- 797
“ The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
- 584
“ The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods. ”
- James I of England- Copy
- 588
“ They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God. ”
- Frederick The Great- Copy
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“ What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? ”
- Christopher Marlowe- Copy
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“ From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings. ”
- Daniel Defoe- Copy
- 922
“ Death may be the King of terrors… but Jesus is the King of kings! ”
- Dwight L. Moody- Copy
- 591
“ Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on. ”
- Pope Gregory VII- Copy
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“ LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked saw, not his own image, but only that of the king. A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!" Please with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy. ”
- Ashurnasirpal- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits. ”
- Stephen B. Leacock- Copy
- 2.3K
“ True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ If a nation is ruled by two kings, both the kings and their subjects will perish. ”
- Eghishe ‘Yeghishe’- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. ”
- Ibn Gabirol- Copy
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