Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured the major stronghold of the kingdom of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden with loot and seemingly invincible, he settled in Dublin and died there peacefully two years later. The pious chroniclers report that he "slept in Christ." Thus it may be that he had the best of both worlds.

Winston Churchill

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Winston Churchill

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

Winston Churchill

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

Winston Churchill

We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked, not combined. We are interested and associated, not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words that were used of old - Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the Host? - we should reply with the Shunamite woman: "Nay sir, for we dwell among our own people".

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.

Vinnie Jones

There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.

Woodrow Wilson

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

William Wycherley

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

William J. Clinton

Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.

Sarah Bernhardt

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

Samuel Pepys

I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

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.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

Wilbur Smith

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

Ronald Reagan

All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations.

Saint Augustine

When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.

Saint Augustine

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

Saint Augustine

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Wiz Khalifa

It’s funny how all the fussing and fighting turns into us f-king and flying.

Winston Churchill

Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

William Thomas Stead

An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

William Wallace

I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king.

Will Rogers

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

Zach Wamp

One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.

Zara Phillips

I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.

Yvette Clarke

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

William Harvey

The animal's heart is the basis of its life, its chief member, the sun of its microcosm; on the heart all its activity depends, from the heart all its liveliness and strength arise. Equally is the king the basis of his kingdoms, the sun of his microcosm, the heart of the state; from him all power arises and all grace stems.

William H. Macy

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

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.