Famous quotes containing the word king:
“I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.”
—Pierre Corneille (16061684)
“I see that Times the king of men;
Hes both their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“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.”
—Ashurnasirpal II (r. 88359 B.C.)
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