King Quotes

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. (Livy)
Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king. View quote
John Milton
The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. View quote
Pietro Aretino
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero. View quote
Morgan Freeman
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. View quote
Horatio Nelson
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. View quote
Wallace Stevens
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
I am more afraid of King Alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy. View quote
Stonewall Jackson
What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door? (Thomas Malory)
Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop. View quote
Lewis Carroll
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. View quote
Denis Diderot
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to. View quote
Dave Barry
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. View quote
Pierre Corneille
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself. View quote
Howard Carter
I came to see a king, not a row of corpses. (Augustus)
To execute laws is a royal office to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust. View quote
Edmund Burke
There can only be one king. View quote
Pablo Escobar
If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land. View quote
Mencius
A great poet is greater than any king. View quote
Robert E. Howard