2,112 Quotes About Kings


  • Author Vittorio Alfieri
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    For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

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  • Author Vittorio Alfieri
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    Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.

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  • Author Washington Allston
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    It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm.

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  • Author William Allingham
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    Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king!

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  • Author Adam Brody
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    I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.

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  • Author Albert Brooks
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    I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'

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