Quotes with kings

  • I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
  • That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
  • Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
  • Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile, like most kings.
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  • William Shakespeare But mercy is above the sceptred sway; it is enthroned in the hearts of kings; it is an attribute to God himself.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles James Fox Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
    Charles James Fox
    British statesman (1749 - 1806)
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  • Mark Twain All kings is mostly rapscallions.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Molière Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Thomas Traherne I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Mark Twain All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Dwight L. Moody Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Herbert Spencer Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Frederick the Great Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Beau Bridges Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile, like most kings.
    A woman of No Importance
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Sand I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • A. N. Wilson It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Blaise Pascal Kings are surrounded with persons who are wonderfully attentive in taking care that the king be not alone and in a state to think of himself, knowing well that he will be miserable, king though he be, if he meditate on self.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • John Dryden Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Charles James Fox Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
    Rede House of Commons (31 oktober 1776)
    Charles James Fox
    British statesman (1749 - 1806)
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  • William Penn Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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