King

Famous quotes containing the word king:

“When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, “Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can” —and walked out of the room.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 2:2.

The Wise men.

“War is a fevered god
who takes alike
maiden and king and clod....”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)