Quote by James Knowles

“And looking down on them, the other Londoners, those monsters who live in the air, the city’s uncounted population of stone men and women…

— Hilary Mantel

“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

“Arise, Lord King, for the enemy is come; even Ambrosius and Uther, upon whose throne thou sittest—and full twenty thousand with them—and they have…

— James Knowles

“when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Well, lords, we have not got that which we have: 'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled, Being opposites of such repairing…

— William Shakespeare

“is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the…

— Jonathan Swift

“Eyesight is asserting itself as king over my other senses. It is enacting a coup d'etat against hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. And I…

— Josh Sundquist

“...That insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“And as Damen looked out, the army was dropping to its knees, until the courtyard was a sea of bowed heads, and silence replaced…

— C.S. Pacat

“But even as they laid him low a great cry rang through the glade - "In the King's Name" and the stalwart knights of…

— W. E. Cule

“King Richard, who was a strong, restless, burly man, with one idea always in his head, and that the very troublesome idea of breaking…

— Charles Dickens

“A solitary figure stood gazing outward, at the edge of the crenellations ringing the circumference of the great tower soaring up from the top…

— Stephen Zimmer