There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengean...
Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.
The tall, thin serious man strode in, his dark cloak billowing so dramatically it threatened to extinguish the lamp flame with its draught. He advanced like a malevolent shadow consuming the dim orang...
Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
Those who serve and those who ruleLepers, kings and mindless foolsEmpire leaders, tyrant's toolsAll will fade with timeHail the cowards, brave at heartThe ugly and the beautifulThose who never felt th...
No ethical person wants to be a king or a queen, because there is no ethics and honor in putting yourself in a place higher than others!
All kings must be butchers or meat.
Dad, I admonished lightly. You can't threaten the King. You'll be pooping in buckets by nightfall.I don't care, he retorted. I'd poop in buckets for the rest of my life if it means your heart was safe...
I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is he'll be much godlier after he's dead.
When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,The good of subjects is the end of kings.
We must not define Jesus and his kingdom by fitting them within conventional understandings of kings and kingdoms. Rather, we must judge and deconstruct those conventional definitions in light of Jesu...
Take a king or a president or anybody. Put a heavy sack of gold in one hand and a feather-light declaration about freedom in the other. And then an outlaw sticks a pistol in his face and says give me...
It's not you worries me. The king is a good man, and an old friend, but it has been a long time, and kings change. Even more than other people, kings change.
His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.
But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1
War is the trade of Kings.
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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