Kings Quotes

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles. (Niccolò Machiavelli)
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. View quote
James Shirley
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. View quote
Edmund Burke
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
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. View quote
Imelda Marcos
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? View quote
Christopher Marlowe
For as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see thee, for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed. View quote
Thomas Malory
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)
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed. View quote
Bob Dylan
Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. View quote
Charles James Fox
And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings. View quote
Denis Diderot
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. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. View quote
Molière
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men. View quote
Pierre Corneille
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. View quote
Thomas Edison
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. View quote
Edward Abbey
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! View quote
Honoré de Balzac
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. (Harold Macmillan)
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. View quote
William Morris
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. View quote
John Dryden
But war 's a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at. View quote
William Cowper
Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be. View quote
Terry Pratchett