KING QUOTES V

quotations about kings

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

WILLIAM COWPER

The Task


There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

Tags: William Shakespeare


A king should prefer his country to his children.

SENECA

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Seneca


A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day, but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

JOHN LOCKE

"Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays


If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

ELIZABETH BEAR

Range of Ghosts