Kings

Famous quotes containing the word kings:

“Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern this your great people?”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 3:9.

Solomon to God.

“‘Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. ‘Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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