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King Quotes
Words fit for a crown, from throne to everyday life.
This page gathers king quotes that move well beyond palace walls - comparing a monarch's day to the arc of the sun, and framing actors as hidden wizards and kings. For more in this vein, see our Shayari collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's only by coincidence I started working with my father - all because of King Abdullah's decision not to grant my promotion. God bless his soul, he did me a favor.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
West Bengal belongs to Bengalis. We should live here like a king and not as servants.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration.
- Dr. King
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my view, the most important lesson we can learn from Dr. King is not what he said at the March on Washington but what he said and did after the march. In the years following the march, he did not play politics to see what crumbs a fundamentally corrupt system might toss to the beggars for justice.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Martin Luther King Jr. could have argued that separate water fountains were too expensive, a waste of money. He would have been right about that. But cost was beside the point.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
In political and social analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king.
- Codes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important virtue in politics was once thought to be likeability. But in Corbyn, dislikeable was king. Actually, dislikeability reached its apotheosis in Donald Trump, who exhibited sourness, truculence and negativity in every step and tweet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't go to war to protect Pizza Hut or Burger King or some other things, some of the nonsense I've seen on our battlefields.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
King Edward VIII was forced to abdicate because he was determined to marry a divorced woman. As a result of that decision, the Queen's father, George VI, was obliged to lead the country through a war that threatened its survival, with all the personal pain portrayed in 'The King's Speech.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rise of King Crimson was so fast that, to me, it felt as if it was going out of control. And it was going so fast that I couldn't keep up with what was happening.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
In big battle scenes, like 'King Arthur', you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they're not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you'll find some poor little sod, who didn't want to be there, anyway, with his head split.
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- Nov 07, 2020