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“Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings,
But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.”
William R. Alger Quotes Source: Oriental Poetry--Elbow Room
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“Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil
times; and which have much veneratoin, but no rest.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Essays--Of Empire
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“Unhappy France! Unhappy King!
[Fr., Malheureuse France! Malheureux roi!]”
Etienne Bequet Quotes Source: heading in the "Journal des Debats", when Charles X was driven from the throne
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“And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide,
There was no cause for weeping, save when the good man died.
[Fr., Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira
Que le peuple, qui l'enterra pleura.]”
Pierre Jean de Beranger Quotes Source: Le Roi Yvetot, rendering of Thackeray's "King of Brentford"
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“And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedest the Egyptian? And
Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.”
Bible Quotes Source: Exodus (ch. II, v. 14)
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“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom
there is no help.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. CXLVI, v. 3)
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“The king reigns but does not govern.
[Ger., Der Konig herrscht aber regiert nicht.]”
Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck Quotes Source: in a debate in the Reichstag, but he denied the application of the maxim to Germany
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“The Prussian Sovereigns are in possession of a crown not be the
grace of the people, but by God's grace.”
Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck Quotes Source: Speech in the Prussian Parliament
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“That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental
principle of the English constitution.”
Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck Quotes Source: Speech in the Prussian Parliament
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“The king never dies.”
Sir William Blackstone Quotes Source: Commentaries (IV, 249), also Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 50)
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“Many a crown
Covers bald foreheads.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 754)
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“I dare be bold, you're one of those
Have took the covenant,
With cavaliers are cavaliers
And with the saints, a saint.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: The Tale of the Cobbler and the Vicar of Bray
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“Whatever I can say or do.
I'm sure not much avails;
I shall still Vicar be of Bray,
Whichever side prevails.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Tale of the Cobbler and the Vicar of Bray, in posthumous works
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“I loved no King since Forty One
When Prelacy went down,
A Cloak and Band I then put on,
And preached against the Crown.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: The Turn-Coat, in posthumous works
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“God bless the King--I mean the faith's defender;
God bless (no harm in blessing) the pretender;
But who the pretender is, or who is King--
God bless us all--that's quite another thing.”
John Byrom Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Pieces
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“Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of
thorns.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Past and Present (bk. III, ch. VIII)
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“I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will
forgive me: that's his.
[Fr., Moi, je serai autocrate: c'est mon metier. Et le bon Dieu
me pardonnnera: c'est son metier.]”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Past and Present (bk. III, ch. VIII)
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“That man is deceived who thinks it slavery to live under an
excellent prince. Never does liberty appear in a more gracious
form than under a pious king.
[Lat., Fallitur egregio quisquis sub principe credet
Servitutem. Nunquam libertas gratior extat
Quam sub rege pio.]”
Claudian (Claudianus) Quotes Source: De Laudibus Stilichonis (III, 113)
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“'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law
To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw.”
George Colman ("The Younger") Quotes Source: Blue Beard (act III, sc. 4)
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“Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch.
[Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque
Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]”
Pierre Corneille Quotes Source: Cinna (IV, 4)
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“Now let us sing, long live the king.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: History of John Gilpin
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“I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute,
From the centre all round to the sea,
I am lord of the fowl and the brute.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk
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“I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself
being Queen of this country.”
Diana, Princess of Wales Quotes Source: in a BBC1 television interview
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“And kind as kings upon their coronation day.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Fables--The Hind and the Panther (pt. I, l. 271)
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“A man's a man,
But when you see a king, you see the work
Of many thousand men.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
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