You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.
King Edward VIII

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
Sallust

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
Sallust

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.
Robert Duvall

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
Pericles

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. Forster

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.
George Lucas

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.
George Lucas

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
Sally Ride

The king must die so that the country can live.
Maximilien Robespierre

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
Elizabeth I

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
Elizabeth I

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
Thomas More

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
Wallace Stevens

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.
Pete Townshend

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
Muhammad Iqbal

Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.
George Whitefield

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.
Anne Rice

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
Anne Rice

I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.
Anne Rice