Kings Quotes - Page 36

• Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Years, Usual, Utterance

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• The Summer King stroked her cheek with his thumb. “Can you offer me your fidelity? Your heart and your body and your companionship for eternity? Do you want my fidelity? Either love me or kiss me goodbye, my Summer Queen.

  Melissa Marr

  Summer, Goodbye, Queens

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• I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Needs, True Man

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• Is he having a party?" "Dorian is a sociable king. He likes keeping people around him, mostly so he can mock them.

  Richelle Mead

  Party, People, Likes

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• Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

  Robin Hobb

  Pain, Simple, Choices

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.653, Spectra

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• Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mother, Brother, Dear Ones

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• When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Law, May, Ridiculous

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.119, Candlewick Press

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• When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Art, Men

  Victor Hugo (1948). “Notre-Dame de Paris”

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• Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I was and being with you in the palace reminds me of the man I want to be.' 'Not just any man,' she whispered. 'A King. Mine.

  Melina Marchetta

  Hate, Boys, Men

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• It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall -- all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.

  Bram Stoker

  Fall, Heart, Dry Bones

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula (Fidia Classics)”, p.171, Bram Stoker

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• Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you're over here like this? Calvin:...I don't think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.

  Bill Watterson

  Mom, Nice, Thinking

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• I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

  Jane Austen

  War, Men, Thinking

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.87

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• Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

  George R. R. Martin

  Leadership, Men, Rabbits

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.50, Bantam

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• He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Moving, Simple, Games

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• I didn't think about being king,” he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. “Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think first, Eugenides, will never cease to amaze me. What do you mean you didn't think about being king? Is Attolia going to marry you and move into my library?

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.

  Jennifer McMahon

  Baby, Crazy, Beer

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• You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Astrid Lindgren (1998). “Pippi Goes to School”

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• Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.

  Matthew Henry

  Jesus, Baptism, Atonement

  Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.732

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• I'm king of the World, bitches. Come in here and bask in my glory.(Strider)

  Gena Showalter

  Foyers, World, Glory

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.12, HQN Books

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• You don’t know what you’re talking about.” – Coyote “Arrogance. The number one cause of death among both peasant and king. Beware its sharp blade. More times than not, it injures the one who wields it most of all.” – Choo Co La Tah

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Talking, Numbers, Arrogance

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• ...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

  James M. Barrie

  Paper, Examination, Want

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.33, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Who did you pass on the road?" the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay. "Nobody," said the Messenger. "Quite right," said the King; "this young lady saw him too. So of course Nobody walks slower than you." "I do my best," the Messenger said in a sullen tone. "I'm sure nobody walks much faster than I do!" "He can't do that," said the King, "or else he'd have been here first.

  Lewis Carroll

  Hands, Hay, Messengers

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 7

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• ...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

  Christopher Paolini

  Worry, Grew, Importance

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.3003, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Men, Two

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]

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• ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!

  William Shakespeare

  Body, Foxes, Lord

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.107, Hackett Publishing

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