king quotes

• Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" to avoid libel suits. (Stephen Leacock) [king/king]
• They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis. (Daniel Defoe) [value/king]
• Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake. (Jean Baudrillard) [cities/king]
• He that can work is born to be king of something. (Thomas Carlyle) [king]
• Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward. (Thomas Carlyle) [king/prophet]
• The king is the man who can. (Thomas Carlyle) [king]
• You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. (Miguel De Cervantes) [king]
• If you shoot at a king you must kill him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [king]
• Today is a king in disguise. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [king]
• Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller. (Benjamin Franklin) [punishment/people/king/luxury]
• He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [king//housing]
• Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [king//housing]
• Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king. (Thomas Hardy) [king]
• Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. ( Horace) [death/king]
• There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. (Helen Keller) [king/slave/slave/king]
• The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters. (Rush Limbaugh) [riots/king/verdict/riots]
• He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king (John Milton) [desires/more/king]
• He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing! ( Seneca) [king/king/desires]
• Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies. (William Shakespeare) [god/king/age/enemies]
• Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. (George Bernard Shaw) [vulgarity/king]
• Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer. (Henry David Thoreau) [delicacy/king]
• When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king. (John Wanamaker) [forget/king]
• My bed is actually two king beds put together. (Cindy Margolis) [king]
• This will be the definitive King Kong. (Adrien Brody) [willpower/king]
• In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king. (Chris Farley) [land/king]
• Sure, the lion is king of the jungle but airdrop him into Antarctica, & he's just a penguin's bitch (Dennis Miller) [king]
• I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools. (Jack Black) [king]
• I had a bit of a lost weekend while we were doing King Kong. Overall I'm very responsible on set. I'm not one of those dudes who come drunk to the set. (Jack Black) [king]
• I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships. (James Caan) [king/family/people]
• “[James, 40, played a bumbling suitor in the film] Hitch ... The King of Queens.” (Will Smith) [king]
• “The King of Queens.” (Leah Remini) [king]

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