Quote by Andrew Peterson

“In your books I have flung myself into the bottomless pit, performed miracles, slain, burned towns, preached new religions, conquered whole kingdoms”

— Anton Chekhov

“For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some…

— William Shakespeare

“The old King is dead. The new King approaches! And at his approach the world sheds its sorrow. The sings of the old King…

— Susanna Clarke

“A king had best know the names of his enemies, don’t you think?”

— George R.R. Martin

“A King Who Keeps To Himself Dwells" A king who keeps to himself dwells in a humble house with his sole servant. While his…

— Elizabeth Spires

“LO! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“He rises bloodless from dust, with dead eyes that are pits twin reaches to eternal pain. He is the lodestone to the gathering clan,…

— Steven Erikson

“They are surely gods who speak to him With steady voices A glance from him drives men to their knees His sigh brings cities…

— S.U. Pacat

“We are weary of ourselves, and have dreamed a king. If now the gods have sent us one, let us not ask him to…

— Mary Renault

“He condemned monarchy itself as a system which had laid the world "in blood and ashes.”

— Charles A. Beard

“No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes…

— William Shakespeare

“Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.”

— Horace