Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

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.

William Hazlitt

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

William Hazlitt

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

William Hazlitt

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

William Doyle

Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.

Walter Rauschenbusch

It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action

Walter Raleigh

It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

Warren Ellis

Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means he, not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.

Warren Buffett

When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.

Walter Bagehot

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

William Bell

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

William Blackstone

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

William Blackstone

And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

William Blake

Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things.

William Blake

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

Wallace Shawn

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.

Samuel L. Jackson

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

Sally Ride

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

Walton Goggins

Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

Jostein Gaarder

A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.

Koko Taylor

I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas and he would play the blues,

Kim Kardashian

When someone asks me, 'What do you do?' under my breath I want to say, 'Ask my f--king bank account what I do,'

Kevin J. Anderson

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

Kendrick Lamar

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

Keith David

Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.

Rainn Wilson

I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

Rain

I can eat everything; chocolate, hamburgers, pizza, go to McDonalds, Burger King, KFC. It's all in my body.

Radhanath Swami

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?