2,112 Quotes About Kings

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed .

We're comfortable financially, so it wasn't a financial issue that I voted Conservative. Basically, it was for the same reason we voted for Diefenbaker. First it was Mackenzie King, then St. Laurent -- Christ, the Liberals were in something like 20 years in a row (22 actually) --and we simply needed a change. It was getting like a dictatorship. Whether elected or not, that's not good for the country. I didn't go to war for a dictatorship.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King, not Stalin, Bevins, or Truman. That He has all things in His hands, that 'all things work together for good for those that love Him.