Don’t forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. – Frederick the Great
Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier. – Elliott Abrams
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. – Ernst Toller
So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing. – Chris Roberson
The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country. – Fidel Castro
Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an earthy, rock-and-roll look like the Kings of Leon or the Killers. – Donatella Versace
There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings. – George R. R. Martin
Thomas Friedman’s ‘The World is Flat’ sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India. – Pankaj Mishra
Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did ‘Kings and Queen’, had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and I was supposed to direct my own film! – Mathieu Amalric
The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall. – Louis XIV
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. – Mary Wollstonecraft
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‘we.’ – Mark Twain
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. – Julian Assange
From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective. – Lee Hall
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are – politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings. – Laurence Olivier
I love mixing prints. The costume designer for ‘Pair of Kings’ and I have actually incorporated the trend for my character ‘Mikayla.’ – Kelsey Chow
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings. – Julius Wellhausen
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confident that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. – J. M. Roberts