Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

Better live a King, than a Prince.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We are either kings or pawns of men

Northrop Frye

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

And on the pedestal these words appear:
 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
 Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' 
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
 Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
 The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Mel Gibson

F**king Jews...the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.

Mel Brooks

It's good to be the king.

Martin Buber

I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach the enemy in order to attack him. In fleeing from him, it is possible to circumvent him as he advances and fall on him from the rear and force him to surrender. What is needed is not to strike straight at evil but to withdraw to the sources of divine power, and from there to circle around evil, bend it and transform it into its opposite.

Martin Amis

I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful lot of modern writing seems to me to be a depressed use of language. Once, I called it "vow-of-poverty prose." No, give me the king in his countinghouse. Give me Updike.

Pope Benedict XVI

God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways into right ways...The feast of Christ the King is therefore not a feast of those who are subjugated, but a feast of those who know that they are in the hands of the one who writes straight on crooked lines.

Pietro Aretino

With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

Pindar

Law , the king of all mortals and immortals.

Pierre Corneille

I would not like a king who could obey.

Pierre Corneille

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

Pierre Corneille

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

Pierre Corneille

It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.

Pierre Corneille

I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.

Pierre Corneille

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

Pierre Corneille

He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.

Pierre Corneille

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

Pierre Corneille

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.

Philippa Gregory

Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.

Philip Massinger

From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.

Peter Ackroyd

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

Pete Wentz

I'm a little bit of a makeout king. I don't discriminate too much.

Pete Townshend

The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

Pete Townshend

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

Pete Seeger

It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.

Pete Seeger

Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.

Pete Seeger

There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.

Simon Rich

I've always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this book I did a lot of fun research on robber barons like Rockefeller and Morgan. But the most helpful stuff came from studying royal families and mad emperors. The best book I read was probably A King's Own Story, which is the memoir of Edward VIII. Also, anything about Ivan the Terrible or Ted Turner.

Simon Rich

By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books simply because I wanted to read them. I discovered heroes like Roth, King, Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, TC Boyle, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris. These people weren't trying to "rebel against the literary establishment." They were trying to write great, high-quality books that were as entertaining and moving as possible.