Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard Shaw

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
Charles James Fox

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
William Penn

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
Robert Herrick

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Thomas Carlyle

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
Patrick Stewart

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
Marquis de Sade

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
Mark Twain

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
Honore De Balzac

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Horace

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Horace

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
Louis XVIII

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Hesiod

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
Amelia Barr

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