Kings Quotes - Page 5

• The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun.

  Robert Roswell Palmer

  War, History

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• Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling
  Extremity out of act.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Gazing, Graves

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Pericles. Titus Andronicus. Addenda. Indexes”, p.200

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• Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

  Tony Benn

  Tyrants, Politics, Revolution

  Tony Benn, Joan Bodington (1974). “Speeches”

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• It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

  Frederick The Great

  Country, War, Drinking

  "Alcohol in the Western World" by Bert L. Vallée, Scientific American, Volume 278, No. 6, pp. 80-85, ru.scribd.com. June 1998.

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• You could be the king but watch the queen conquer!

  Nicki Minaj

  Queens, Flirty, Watches

  "Kanye West" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. September 7, 2010.

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• In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Age

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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• Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.

  Josephine Hull

  Tire

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

  Ray Bradbury

  Leadership, Trying, President

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy.

  Newt Gingrich

  Political, Energy, Policy

  "The Ed Show" with Ed Shultz, www.nbcnews.com. June 10, 2009.

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• There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Adversity, Men, World

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

  Saadi

  Men, Order, Two

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• No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.

  Saadi

  Dream, Boys, Voice

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• The people have a right supreme
  To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
  All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,
  Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.
  Successionm for the general good design'd,
  In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.

  John Dryden

  People, Design, Empires

  John Dryden (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hero, Passion, People

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• Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

  Howard Nemerov

  Power, President, May

  Howard Nemerov (1977). “The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov”, p.420, University of Chicago Press

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• To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Feelings, Deception, Disguise

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• The king reigns but does not govern.

  Adolphe Thiers

  Doe, Reign

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• The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of Kings.

  Arthur Balfour

  Majority, May, Tyranny

  "News Of The Week". The Spectator Magazine, No. 3,380 (p. 1), archive.spectator.co.uk. April 8, 1893.

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• Both of you’ll just have to believe me. Emma’s one of those women who was born with… The thing is, the minute a heterosexual man looks at her, all he can think about is – well, her mouth, and – ” “Emma?” Torie’s own mouth gaped in astonishment. Patrick crossed his legs. “Maybe we’re not talking about the same person. British accent? Good appetite? Hums songs from The Lion King when she doesn’t think anybody’s listening?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Song, Believe, Men

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Children, Integrity

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants.

  Randall Wright

  Marriage, Queens, Men

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• It is as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out one special, specific task. You go to the country and you perform a hundred other tasks, but if you have not performed the task you were sent for, it is as if you have done nothing at all. So people have come into the world for particular tasks, and that is our purpose. If we don't perform it, we will have done nothing.

  Rumi

  Country, People, Special

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• Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived.

  Billy the Kid

  Tombstone, Boys, Men

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• A king without a queen is not a king. The main point of creation is the union of male and female.

  Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson

  Queens, Romance, Males

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