Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vittorio Alfieri

A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

Vittorio Alfieri

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

Vittorio Alfieri

Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.

Virgil

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

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.

W. S. Gilbert

It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

W. S. Gilbert

I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

Vincent Price

Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

William Cowper

Oh winter, king of fire side enjoyments, home born happiness.

Wayne Coyne

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

Wayne Dyer

Most people think that there is a monarchy, where God is the king and we are the subjects, and the subjects are inferior to this invisible king. But not only are we inferior, we are also stained by sin, and therefore, untrustworthy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The king was pregnant.

Ursula K. Le Guin

For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

Ursula K. Le Guin

There is no kingdom like the forests.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

Ursula K. Le Guin

One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.

Rodney Dangerfield

She was so fat that her bikini is made out of two bed sheets (king-size).

Robert Payne

Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.

Robert Payne

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.

Robert Palmer

Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.