Kings Quotations | Page 4

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings.

O King, be loyal to the royal within you.

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

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.