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Image of Evelyn Underhill
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.
- Evelyn Underhill
Collection: Kings
Image of Plutarch
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.
- Plutarch
Collection: Kings
Image of Plutarch
The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.
- Plutarch
Collection: Kings
Image of Margaret Thatcher
Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King...it was not the sort of Revolution that France's was...'Liberty, equality, fraternity' - they forgot obligations and duties I think. And then of course the fraternity went missing for a long time.
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: Kings
Image of Tom Robbins
There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume. The one was trying to acquire the courage of the king of beasts, the other is attempting to acquire the irresistible sexuality of flowers. The underlying principle is the same.
- Tom Robbins
Collection: Kings
Image of Bill Johnson
When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.
- Bill Johnson
Collection: Kings
Image of Kristin Cashore
That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scale—bribery, coercion, sabotage, organized rebellion—all directed at stopping the worst behavior of the world’s most seriously corrupt kings.
- Kristin Cashore
Collection: Kings
Image of Kristin Cashore
We need an ally of Mydogg's or Gentian's pretending to be among the most loyal allies of the king,' Brigan said. 'Shouldn't be so hard, really. If I shot an arrow out the window I'd probably hit on.
- Kristin Cashore
Collection: Kings
Image of Cornel West
I think it's important not to view Martin Luther King Jr. in a narrow political manner. His fundamental commitment is to a radical love of humanity, and especially of poor and working people. And that radical love leads him to a radical analysis of power, domination and oppression. What's difficult is to situate him ideologically under a particular category.
- Cornel West
Collection: Kings
Image of John Ruskin
He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth they, and they only.
- John Ruskin
Collection: Kings
Image of Kevin Spacey
What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.
- Kevin Spacey
Collection: Kings
Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Collection: Kings
Image of John Flanagan
...at the time, King Herbert felt that to remain safe, the kingdom needed an effective intelligence force." "An intelligent force?" said Will. "Not intelligent. Intelligence. Although it does help if your intelligence force was also intelligent.
- John Flanagan
Collection: Kings
Image of Samuel Smiles
There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
- Samuel Smiles
Collection: Kings
Image of Peter S. Beagle
Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.
- Peter S. Beagle
Collection: Kings
Image of John Selden
Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.
- John Selden
Collection: Kings
Image of Booth Tarkington
Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.
- Booth Tarkington
Collection: Kings
Image of Robin Hobb
King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.
- Robin Hobb
Collection: Kings
Image of Elizabeth Taylor
When I hear the name Michael Jackson, I think of brilliance, of dazzling stars, lasers and deep emotions. I think he is one of the world's biggest and greatest stars, and it just so happens that he is one of the most gifted music makers the world has ever known. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock, and Soul. I love you Michael.
- Elizabeth Taylor
Collection: Kings
Image of Elizabeth Taylor
What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson -- that's all. And when you think you know him, he gives you more. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul.
- Elizabeth Taylor
Collection: Kings
Image of Hector Hugh Munro
There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.
- Hector Hugh Munro
Collection: Kings
Image of Voltaire
Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.
- Voltaire
Collection: Kings
Image of Mark Twain
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
Collection: Kings
Image of J. D. Salinger
Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.
- J. D. Salinger
Collection: Kings
Image of Leo Tolstoy
History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.
- Leo Tolstoy
Collection: Kings
Image of Theodore Parker
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.
- Theodore Parker
Collection: Kings
Image of Theodore Roosevelt
Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Collection: Kings
Image of Mark Twain
The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Kings
Image of Ambrose Bierce
Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.
- Ambrose Bierce
Collection: Kings
Image of Moliere
If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
- Moliere
Collection: Kings
Image of Horace
If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.
- Horace
Collection: Kings
Image of Susanna Clarke
Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.
- Susanna Clarke
Collection: Kings
Image of Susanna Clarke
The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by
- Susanna Clarke
Collection: Kings
Image of John Steinbeck
Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Kings
Image of Virginia Woolf
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
- Virginia Woolf
Collection: Kings
Image of Jon Stewart
It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods.
- Jon Stewart
Collection: Kings
Image of Charles Spurgeon
You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.
- Charles Spurgeon
Collection: Kings
Image of William Shakespeare
O King, believe not this hard-hearted man!
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Kings
Image of Douglas Rushkoff
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but toward less...We have surrendered the unfolding of a new technological age to a small elite who have seized the capability on offer. But while Renaissance kings maintained their monopoly over the printing press by force, today's elite is depending on little more than our own disinterest.
- Douglas Rushkoff
Collection: Kings
Image of Megan Whalen Turner
He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across the palace, and they'd ignored it. If he'd been stoic and denied the pain, the entire palace would have been in a panic already, Eddisian soldiers on the move. He'd meant to deceive them, and he'd succeeded. It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.
- Megan Whalen Turner
Collection: Kings
Image of Megan Whalen Turner
The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.
- Megan Whalen Turner
Collection: Kings
Image of J.R. Ward
All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.
- J.R. Ward
Collection: Kings
Image of William Shakespeare
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Kings
Image of William Shakespeare
For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Kings
Image of Rupert Murdoch
Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic.
- Rupert Murdoch
Collection: Kings
Image of Rupert Murdoch
To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now it’s the people who are taking control.
- Rupert Murdoch
Collection: Kings
Image of Jennifer Donnelly
The King walks. He nods. His glance is like God's touch - under it all things spring to life. A wave of his hand and a hundred musicians tear into the Handel, making a sound you've never heard before, and never will again. A sound that goes through you, through flesh and bone, and reorders the very beat of your heart.
- Jennifer Donnelly
Collection: Kings
Image of J. R. R. Tolkien
Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon his head and said: Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure!
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Collection: Kings