K Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with K. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.”
“Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.”
Source: Essays
“Kings and Queens aren't made from smooth sailing. They fight, they struggle, they take what's theirs, they survive and when they fall, they rise up again.”
“Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer.”
Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye
“Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.”
“Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.”
“Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said. [...] Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to be godly. Is that not cause enough?”
“Kings are falling like leaves this autumn.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.”
“Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.”
“Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Kings are the slaves of history.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry or in high cold towers asking questions of the stars. And so the kingdom of Gondor sank into ruin, the line of kings failed, the white tree withered and the rule of Gondor was given over to lesser men.”
“Kings can only use their best tools.”
“Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.”
Source: 10 Books in 1
“Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.”
“Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg!”
“Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.”
“Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.”
“Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.”
“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object”
Source: Lincoln on War
“Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.”
“Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!”
“Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.”
Source: Letters
“Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent”
“Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.”
“Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.”
“Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.”
Source: Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]
“Kings need the world, but the world does not need the kings! Let them disappear like the horrible ghosts of the nightmares!”
“Kings of the land and the sky we are; proud gryphons.” Stalker stands, the epitome of pride. Naked and muscular, his wings widen and his feet dig in as if he alone holds down the earth and supports the heavens, keeping the two ever separate.”
Source: Wingspan
“Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives.”
Source: The Writings of John Dickinson
“Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are 'the best of kings'. It is their power, their splendour, it is the apprehension of the personal consequences of their favour or their hatred that dazzles the imagination and suspends the judgement of their favourites or their vassals; but death cancels the bond of allegiance and of interest; and seen AS THEY WERE, their power and their pretensions look monstrous and ridiculous.”
Source: Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
“Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.”
Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.”
“Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.”
Source: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. By T. De Quincey
“Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.”
“Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)
“Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth.”
Source: Elizabeth I: Collected Works
“Kings who become prisoners are not far from death.”
Source: Marie Antoinette: The Journey
“Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.”
“Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.”
Source: The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016
“Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.”
“Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered.”
Source: The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series
“Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.”
Source: The Van Alen Legacy
“Kingsley smiled his Cheshire smile. And without a word, he called up the white darkness - the subvertio - a spell that unlocked what could not be unlocked, that destroyed what could not be destroyed. There was a rumbling, a shaking, like the strongest earthquake, and the iron gate crumbled, and the path began to melt. the demon shrieked, but Kingsley just looked at Mimi the entire time. "Azrael...”
“Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.”
“Kingsley, ever the joker, had his Venator mark tattooed near his unmentionables”
“Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name - total Rasta boy. He gives me a real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you still have to stop to hang out with him.”
“Kini aku tahu, aku menyukai kebersamaan kami, bukan hanya karena aku teramat menyukai Rasmus. Namun juga karena aku makin menyukai diriku sendiri jika aku bersamanya. Ia membuatku berarti.”
Source: Berlabuh di Lindoeya