King Quote by George Blagden

What good is it to be a king who's feared but not respected?

— Rei Fenusko

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

— Herman Melville

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

— William Hazlitt

A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a…

— R. A. Salvatore

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

— Homer

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor…

— Seneca the Younger

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

— Sinclair Lewis

A king is no king without his people, but a people without their king would be lost as well. Lan Fan (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)

— Hiromu Arakawa

As king, your desires must be stronger than any other. You must be more magnificent, more easily angered than everyone else! He should be…

— Anonymous

It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural…

— Edmund Burke

Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they…

— William Hazlitt