Kings

Famous quotes containing the word kings:

“As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“Why should kings and nobles have
Pictured trophies to their grave,
And we, churls, to thee deny
Thy pretty toys with thee to lie—
A more harmless vanity?”
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834)

“His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, -Why have you done thus and so?”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 1:6.