Wicked King Quotes

At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart? ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

It wasn't the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they've played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie. ~ David Thewlis

Faeries…?" I ask.

"Yes, yes." He sounds impatient. "The Folk of the Air. Insubstantial, unable to hold one shape. Like the seeds of flowers launched into the sky. ~ Holly Black

Better she never be a bride than wind up a widow ~ Holly Black

When I met Eldred, he rode up on a milk-white steed, and all the imaginings of my life were as dust and ashes. ~ Holly Black

In this hole lives the wicked king. ~ David Berkowitz

Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness ~ Holly Black

It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death. ~ John Milton

Ser Gregor, it went, Dunsen, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei. She ended it with valar morghulis, ~ George R R Martin

Call him. Claim him. Speak his Name. Make him thine before all others. ~ C.L. Wilson

She looked beautiful,standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, and lift her, and carry her into some untroubled future.
Instead, I left her where she was. That's not the world we live in, she'd said, and how right she was, ~ Stephen King

Quot libros, quam breve tempus - so many books, so little time ~ Stephen King

The love you left behind is so much greater than the regrets your departure created. You were more than worth the trouble. I pray I was too. ~ Seth King

It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science. ~ Steve King

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic. ~ Stephen King

Do not deceive yourself, Gawain. There are black places in the heart of every man. ~ Suzannah Rowntree

When we rise in the morning ... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

We're gonna do like Posh and Becks and call it after the place it was conceived."
"Where's that?" I asked.
"King of Prussia. ~ Henry G. Radcliff

And why? Because they're too blind, too emotionally scarred, or too self-involved to see past the earth's dark curve to the next sunrise. Which always comes, if one continues to draw breath. "More ~ Stephen King

The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history. ~ Myles Munroe

I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens, this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives. ~ Stephen King

A strange sound was heard . It was not inside or outside . It was not from left or right, nor from front or behind. It was not from above or below. It was not a physical sound. You may ask where it comes from.
It comes from the direction in which you search . You may ask which direction to face . Face that way from which the King comes. That direction from where the parched fish remains alive by getting water.That direction which ripens the fruit...even unbelievers would give up unbelief On hearing it. ~ Shams-i-Tabriz

Sometimes that
which we fear
strengthens our
spirit and gives
us a splash
of hope. ~ Harley King

Don't go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember. ~ Stephen King

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,
Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here. ~ William Shakespeare

I'm an ardent American Football fan. ~ Don King

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit. ~ Stephen King

When examples of openness of thought come from a single ruler, they count for nothing, except to show that he alone can afford to be like that because he is king. ~ Italo Calvino

Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes. ~ Carole King

And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say, and others like dead people lying on the grass. I went on among them, though they frightened me, and my heart was full of wicked song they put into it; and I wanted to make faces and twist myself about the way they did, and I went on and on a long way till at last I liked the rocks and they didn't frighten me any more ~ Arthur Machen

Avenia thinks they're battling a king. I doubt they're prepared to fight a boy who thinks childish pranks are practical strategies for war."
"Aren't they? ~ Jennifer A. Nielsen

Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim - one upon whose head has been poured the divine petroleum of authority. Compare this king with Haeckel, who towers an intellectual colossus above the crowned mediocrity. Compare George Eliot with Queen Victoria. The Queen is clothed in garments given her by blind fortune and unreasoning chance, while George Eliot wears robes of glory woven in the loom of her own genius.
The world is beginning to pay homage to intellect, to genius, to heart.
We have advanced. We have reaped the benefit of every sublime and heroic self-sacrifice, of every divine and brave act; and we should endeavor to hand the torch to the next generation, having added a little to the intensity and glory of the flame. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll

maybe, I thought, we were all circus mice, running around with only the dimmest awareness that God and all His heavenly host were watching us in our Bakelite houses through our ivy-glass windows. ~ Stephen King

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers. ~ Stephen King

Our dog had an ingrown tail, we had to X-ray him to find out if he was happy. I ~ Stephen King

I paid a higher price than anyone will ever know, but I lived with the bargain I made just the same. I did more than that. When the dust bunnies and the dreams of what could have been were all I had left, I took the dreams and made them my own. The dust bunnies? Well, they might have gotten me in the end, but I lived with them for a lot of years before they did. Now you've got a bunch of your own to deal with, but if you've lost the guts you had on the day when you told me that firing the Jolander girl was a boogery thing to do, go on. Go on and jump. Because without your guts, Dolores Claiborne, you're just another stupid old woman. ~ Stephen King

What you write down sometimes leaves you forever, like old photographs left in the bright sun, fading to nothing but white. I pray for that sort of release. ~ Stephen King

First, the line of progress is never straight. For a period a movement may follow a straight line and then it encounters obstacles and the path bends. It is like curving around a mountain when you are approaching a city. Often if feels as though you were moving backwards, and you lose sight of your goal: but in fact you are moving ahead, and soon you will see the city again, closer by. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.