Quotes
Quotes about Kings
In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, kings, lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.
Kings are like stars,--they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.
When Freedom from her mountain-height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there.
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies,
And striped its pure, celestial white
With streakings of the morning light.
Flag of the free heart's hope and home!
By angel hands to valour given!
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us,
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?
Hear ye not the hum
Of mighty workings?
He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired Armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.
You that woo the Voices--tell them "Old Experience is a fool";
Teach your flattered kings that only those who can not read can rule.
I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
The kings of modern thought are dumb.
Ennobling this dull pomp, the life of kings,
By contemplation of diviner things.
The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings.
The world is so full of a number of things,
I 'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination.
The tumult and the shouting dies,--
The Captains and the Kings depart,--
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Being nimble and light-footed, his father encouraged him to run in the Olympic race. "Yes," said he, "if there were any kings there to run with me."
When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.
Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, until philosophers become kings in this world, or until those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers.
Kings have long arms, but misfortune longer; let none think themselves out of reach.
Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
