85 Kings Quotes

Following is our list of kings quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about kings and queens.

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Famous Kings Quotes

If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. - Al-Ghazali

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. — Al-Ghazali

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings. — Qin Shi Huang

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice? — David Livingstone

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles — Niccolo Machiavelli

Try to be the king, but the ace is back. - Dr. Dre

Try to be the king, but the ace is back. — Dr. Dre

Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg! — Chris Oyakhilome

Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king. — Fred Hollows

My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet…oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool. — Anthony Jeselnik

Short Kings Quotes

  • Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. — Adelle Davis
  • Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom. — Jack LaLanne
  • Had a dream, I was King, I woke up, still King — Eminem
  • He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. — John Milton
  • I have wined and dined with kings and queens and I’ve slept in alleys and dined on pork and beans. — Dusty Rhodes
  • Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings. — Mary Slessor
  • All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds — Charles I of England
  • The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow. — George R. R. Martin
  • May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Kings Image Quotes

After the game the King and pawn go into the same box. - Italian Proverbs quote

After the game the King and pawn go into the same box. — Italian Proverbs

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England. - John Irving quote

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England. — John Irving

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. - John Mason Brown quote

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. — John Mason Brown

A king of infinite space - William Shakespeare quote

A king of infinite space — William Shakespeare

There are no men like me. There's only me - George R. R. Martin quote

There are no men like me. There's only me — George R. R. Martin

My yoke is easy, and my burden light. - Saint Boniface quote

My yoke is easy, and my burden light. — Saint Boniface

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. - Big Sean quote

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. — Big Sean

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love. - Laurence Sterne quote

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love. — Laurence Sterne

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. - Horace quote

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. — Horace

There's nothing so kingly as kindness,
And nothing so royal as truth. - Alice Cary quote

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth. — Alice Cary

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. - George Bernard Shaw quote

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. — George Bernard Shaw

Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal? - Louis XIV quote

Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal? — Louis XIV

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. - Pietro Aretino quote

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino

The Last Argument of Kings. - Louis XIV quote

The Last Argument of Kings. — Louis XIV

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. - Constantin Brancusi quote

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. — Constantin Brancusi

Kings quote A King only bows down to his Queen.
A King only bows down to his Queen.

Kings And Queens Quotes

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. — Charles Sumner

America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect. — John Leguizamo

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective. — A. N. Wilson

Kings quote At the end of the game the kind and the pawn go back in the same box.
At the end of the game the kind and the pawn go back in the same box.

My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty. — Kate Walsh

Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again. — George R. R. Martin

Trump has demonstrated, and Biden will demonstrate, that a President of the United States no longer has any more power than a Queen or King of England. At least the British have some nice ceremony to go with their nothingness. — Nick Szabo

Kings quote Any home can be castle when the king and queen are in love
Any home can be castle when the king and queen are in love

Those who begin to exercise regularly and replace white flour, sugar and devitalized foods with live, organic natural foods begin to feel better immediately. Exercise is king, nutrition is queen -- put them together and you've got a kingdom. — Jack LaLanne

The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams. — Ronnie James Dio

All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are — Sayings

In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween! — Jack Prelutsky

Kings And Love Quotes

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding. — Elton John

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism. — Robert Kiyosaki

Hate is too great a burden to bear. - Coretta Scott King

Hate is too great a burden to bear. — Coretta Scott King

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren. - J. R. R. Tolkien

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. — Guru Nanak

Kings quote Every man needs woman when his life is mess, because like in game of chess; queen protects king.
Every man needs woman when his life is mess, because like in game of chess; queen protects king.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. — Kahlil Gibran

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean — Hozier

Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king! — William Allingham

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More Kings Quotes

Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom. — Omar Khayyam

Dr. King's policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none. — Stokely Carmichael

Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody. — Dwight L. Moody

Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king. — Giambattista Bodoni

Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price! — Abu Hamid AlGhazzali

I met Rosa Parks when I was 17. I met Dr. [Martin Luther] King when I was 18. These two individuals inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble. So I got in good trouble, necessary trouble. — John Lewis

Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price! — Al-Ghazali

A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work. — Julius Evola

Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention. — Andrew Carnegie

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