Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.
Thomas HardyMots clés humor men women queens kings
And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Mots clés poetry wish kings pomp tomb
Kings are the slaves of history.
Leo TolstoyMots clés kings
This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the same man it makes two different phantoms, and the one attacks and punishes the other, the darkness of the despot struggles with the splendor of the captain. Hence a truer measure in the final judgment of the nations. Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
Victor HugoMots clés history legacy kings dictators
If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse.
And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.
Mots clés politics insanity madness rulers plato aristotle kings emperors
I know I have but 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 IMots clés strength men women england queens royalty kings
For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.
Cameron DokeyMots clés men kings storyteller shahrazad
Power loves not the light of day, nor the attention of curious eyes. In darkness it thrives most...A lord may send his army hither and thither, but the true testing of his power is in those places where his army is not...Has he sent its long fingers far enough through the backstreets and alleys, into the drinking dens and the lending-houses, so that he may gather them unto himself and hold them firm without a single swordsman?
Brian RuckleyThis is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one.
Christopher HitchensMots clés politics foreign-policy henry-viii britain monarchy kings family-values ugliness 2009 thatcher british-monarchy british-royal-family charles-prince-of-wales anglican-church elizabeth-ii
One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child.
He was the Fourth to follow the Star.
His gift was a secret.
The rest of his journey is unknown.
Mots clés wisdom star christmas magic wise holy gift king kings magi wise-men christmas-star holy-child three-kings three-wise-men
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