KINGS

Related Subjects: Court, Crown, Despotism, Empire, Government, Imperialism, Nobility, Prince, Queen, Throne, Tyranny

1. And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.—Bible, 1 Samuel 10:24
   

2. God save our gracious king!
   Long live our noble king!
   God save the king.—HENRY CAREY, God Save the King
   

3. And kind as kings upon their coronation day.—DRYDEN, The Hind and the Panther
   

4. At long last I am able to say a few words of my own. I have never wanted to withold anything, but until now it has not been constitutionally possible for me to speak.—KING EDWARD VIII Abdication Speech
   

5. But you must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.—KING EDWARD VIII, Abdication Speech
   

6. God said, I am tired of Kings,
   I suffer them no more.—EMERSON, Boston Hymn
   

7. On the king's gate the moss grew gray;
   The king came not. They called him dead
   And made his eldest son one day
   Slave in his father's stead.—HELEN HUNT JACKSON, Coronation
   

8. Certain I am, however, that a king's head is solemnly oiled at his coronation, even as a head of salad. Can it be, though, that they anoint it with a view of making its interior run well, as they anoint machinery?—HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick

9. The right divine of kings to govern wrong.—POPE, The Dunciad
   

10. Good kings never make war, but for the sake of peace.—Proverb
    

11. What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?—SCOTT, Woodstock
    

12. Never king dropped out of the clouds.—JOHN SELDEN, Table Talk
    

13. A King is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake. Just as in a Family one man is appointed to buy the meat.—JOHN SELDEN, Table Talk
    

14. A king of shreds and patches.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

15. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that bath fed of that worm.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

16. There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
    That reason can but peep to what it would.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

17. There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd
    The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
    As easily as a king.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

18. Ay, every inch a king.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear

19. Not all the water in the rough rude sea
    Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
    

20. The king's name is a tower of strength.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
    

21. Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination.—BERNARD SHAW,
    The Revolutionist's Handbook
    

22. Kings are like stars—they rise and set, they have
    The worship of the world, but no repose.—SHELLEY, Hellas
    

23. The Emperor reasoned with him: "Why should you desire to be a pirate?" And the other replied: "Why call me a pirate? Because you see me going about in a little galley? If I could arm myself like you, like you I would be an emperor."—VILLON, Diomedes the Pirate to Alexander