Kings Quotes · Page 16

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

— William Shakespeare

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

— Mark Twain

She was so fat that her bikini is made out of two bed sheets (king-size).

— Rodney Dangerfield

In the Land of Truth, my friend, the man with one fact is King.

— David Rasche

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

— James Crumley

F**king Jews...the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.

— Mel Gibson

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

— Tamora Pierce

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.

— Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

— Howard Nemerov

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

— Ron Livingston

King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."

— Plutarch

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

— William Shakespeare

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

— Mick Garris

“In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

— Dalai Lama

Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King…

— Polycarp

There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else…

— Thomas Hobbes

Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the…

— Nicholas Jarecki

I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would…

— Lloyd C. Douglas

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where…

— Moliere

You will not be asked about your culture in your grave. And you will not be judged based on your Father's last…

— Boonaa Mohammed

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for…

— Anonymous

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is…

— Jean Baudrillard

If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or…

— Maya Angelou

Sometimes, looking up at Sophiatown... I have felt I was looking at an Italian village somewhere in Umbria. For you do ‘look…

— Trevor Huddleston

When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are…

— Howard Thurman

The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown…

— Anonymous

My real musical discovery started when I was 10 with Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5, and acts that I connected with…

— Nick Jonas

I think it's important not to view Martin Luther King Jr. in a narrow political manner. His fundamental commitment is to a…

— Cornel West

Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of…

— Stephen Marche

Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty,…

— Harold Clarke Goddard

He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.

— Pierre Corneille

Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues

— B. B. King

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

— Cornel West

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

— Thomas Carlyle

Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.

— Strom Thurmond

In open positions the safety of the King should be the first consideration.

— Richard Reti

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

— William Cowper

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol