Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.

William Shakespeare

Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

William Shakespeare

They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;

William Shakespeare

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.

William Shakespeare

King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

William Shakespeare

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

William Shakespeare

I am a man more sinned against than sinning

William Shakespeare

for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)

William Shakespeare

ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!

William Shakespeare

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

William Shakespeare

Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.

William Shakespeare

Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

William Shakespeare

though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king of courtesy

William Shakespeare

You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still I am King of those.

William Shakespeare

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

William Shakespeare

Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

William Shakespeare

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

William Shakespeare

Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.

William Shakespeare

Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France

William Shakespeare

Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King;

William Shakespeare

This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

William Shakespeare

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm

My role as king will be much like my mum's as queen, so long as I remain in tune with the people.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Kings are like stars, - they rise and set, they have - The worship of the world, but no repose

William Shakespeare

Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will.

Here lies a King that ruled, as he thought fit, / The universal monarchy of wit.

Mike Matusow

He's got pocket aces, he's got pocket kings and he's got pocket queens.

Jimmy Carter

He was courageous. He was strategic in his thinking, ... Larry King Live.

Gary L. Francione

Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.

Alan Dershowitz

Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.

Charles R. Swindoll

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.