Desire Quote by King James I

On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

— King James I

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

— King James I

The wisest fool in Christendom.

— King James I

That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of…

— King James I

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

— King James I

Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde of Soote…

— King James I

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

— King James I

A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume…

— King James I

God has power to create, or destroy, make, or unmake at his pleasure, to give life, or send death, to judge all, and to…

— King James I

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good…

— King James I

God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought…

— King James I

I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I…

— King James I