Quote by Robin McKinley

“He was king, if he didn’t have enemies he wasn’t doing it right.”

— S.E. Zbasnik

“A good person does not necessarily make a good king.”

— Mindy McGinnis

“Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.”

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“The king is good to those who think him good.”

— Hilary Mantel

“It's not you worries me. The king is a good man, and an old friend, but it has been a long time, and kings…

— Peter S. Beagle

“He made so many people uneasy. Everyone was always very friendly toward him, and no one was ever very nice; everyone spoke to him,…

— Joseph Heller

“He knew that the King was so much bigger than the circumstances they faced.”

— Chuck Black

“There was an aura about King that was unforgettable. I seem him now in my mind's eye: collected, peaceful, calm. He was in his…

— Junius Williams

“Sometimes he was contemptibly childish. He desired to have kings meet him at railway-stations on his return from some ghastly Nowhere, where he intended…

— Joseph Conrad

“Kings were not patient. Not even the fallen kind.”

— Ruth Frances Long

“But he knew what was wrong with him; he was ashamed of himself and afraid of them- afraid of the society whe so despised.”

— Ryünosuke Akutagawa

“He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.”

— Margaret Mitchell