Kings

Famous quotes containing the word kings:

“...then he slept with his ancestors...”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 14:20.

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

“As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they the same education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves.... Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)