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“We will ourself in person to this war;
And, for our coffers, with too great a court
And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light,
We are enforced to farm our royal realm,
The revenue whereof shall furnish us
For our affairs in hand.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at I, iv)
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“For God's sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings!
How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed--
All murdered; for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits,
Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp;
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks;
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life
Were brass impregnable; and humored thus,
Comes at the last, and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood
With solemn reverence, Throw away respect,
Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty;
For you have but mistook me all this while.
I live with bread like you, feel want, taste grief,
Need friends. Subjected thus,”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at III, ii)
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“Yet looks he like a king. Behold, his eye,
As bright as is the eagle's lightens forth
Controlling majesty.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (York at III, iii)
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“I give this heavy weight from off my head
And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,
The pride of kingly sway from out my heart.
With mine own tears I wash away my balm,
With mine own hands I give away my crown,
With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,
With mine own breath release all duty's rites.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at IV, i)
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“Why, our battalia trebles that account:
Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,
Which they upon the adverse faction want.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at V, iii)
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“Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes Source: Hellas--Mahmud to Hassan (l. 195)
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“Hail, glorious edifice, stupendous work!
God bless the Regent, and the Duke of York.”
Horace Smith and James Smith Quotes Source: Rejected Addresses--Loyal Effusion (l. 1)
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“A prince, the moment he is crown'd,
Inherits every virtue sound,
As emblems of the sovereign power,
Like other baubles in the Tower:
Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,
And so continues till he dies.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes Source: On Poetry (l. 191)
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“Hener was the hero-king,
Heaven-born, dear to us,
Showing his shield
A shelter for peace.”
Esaias Tegner Quotes Source: Fridthjof's Saga (canto XXI, st. 7)
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“In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes Source: Idylls of the King--Dedication (l. 26)
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“Broad-based upon her people's will,
And compassed by the inviolate sea.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes Source: To the Queen (st. 9)
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“Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men
claiming and bearing them.”
William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes Source: Roundabout Papers--On Ribbons
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“The king reigns but does not govern.
[Fr., Le roi regne, il ne gouverne pas.]”
Louis Adolphe Thiers Quotes Source: in a number of earlier editions of the "National", before dissolution of the monarchy
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“All kings is mostly rapscallions.”
Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Quotes Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (ch. 23)
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“The first king was a successful soldier;
He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors.
[Fr., Le premier qui fut roi, fut un soldat heureux;
Qui sert bien son pays, n'a pas besoin d'aleux.]”
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Quotes Source: Merope (I, 3)
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“Here lies our mutton-looking king,
Whose word no man relied on,
Who never said a foolish thing
No ever did a wise one.”
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Quotes Source: another version of Rochester's Epitaph on Charles II included in the works of Quarles
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“Here lies our sovereign lord, the king,
Whose word no man relives on,
Who never said a foolish thing,
And never did a wise one.”
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Quotes Source: to Charles II, who answered, "That is very true, for my words are my own. My actions are my minister
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“A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.”
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Quotes Source: On the King
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“Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped--to gird
An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne
Whereon he sits! whose deep foundations lie
In veneration and the people's love.”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: Excursion (bk. IV)
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“A partial world will list to my lays,
While Anna reigns, and sets a female name
Unrival'd in the glorious lists of fame.”
Edward Young Quotes Source: Force of Religion (bk. I, l. 6)
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“A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.”
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“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
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“Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will.”
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“Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.”
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