The Best Quotes About King

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A list of the best king quotes and sayings, including the names of each speaker or author when available. This list is sorted by popularity, so only the most famous king quotes are at the top. The authors of these historic king quotes are displayed next to each quote, so if you see one you like be sure to check out other inspirational king quotes from that same writer.

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If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
Seneca the Younger
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Kings have many ears and eyes.
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He that can work is born to be king of something.
Thomas Carlyle
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They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.
Frederick II of Prussia
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
John Dryden
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
Seneca the Younger
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Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
William Penn
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All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.
Mark Twain
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard Shaw
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Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
Frederick II of Prussia
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What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Christopher Marlowe
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Herbert Spencer
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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

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.

Kings have many ears and eyes.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

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.