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The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy. (Edward VIII )
He that can work is born to be king of something. (Edward VIII )
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause. (Edward VIII )
I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all. (Edward VIII )
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If you shoot at a king you must kill him. (Edward VIII )
In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards. (Edward VIII )
Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. (Edward VIII )
They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God. (Edward VIII )
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. (Edward VIII )
A king should die on his feet. (Edward VIII )
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? (Edward VIII )
Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. (Edward VIII )
Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on. (Edward VIII )
Kings have many ears and eyes. (Edward VIII )
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat. (Edward VIII )
The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred. (Edward VIII )
He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing! (Edward VIII )
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. (Edward VIII )
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. (Edward VIII )
I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time. (Edward VIII )
It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do. (Edward VIII )
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