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He who knows how to dissimulate knows how to reign. [Fr., Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare.] - Vicentius Lupanus (Vincent de La Loupe), De Magistratibus & Praefecturis Francorum (lib. I) A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. - Niccolo Machiavelli (Macchiavelli) His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering but not beneath his shoulders broad. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 300) 'Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays--Of the Inconveniences of Greatness A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care! - Hannah More, Daniel (pt. VI) St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense." - Old Song, Black-letter Ballad, London, 1512 In good King Charles's golden days When royalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. - Old Song, Vicar of Bray, written before 1710 Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Heroides (XVII, 166) It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Remedia Amoris (480) The King is dead! Long live the King! - Julia Pardoe, Life of Louis XIV (vol. III, p. 457) But all's to no end, for the time will not mend Till the King enjoys his own again. - Martin (Martyn) Parker, Upon Defacing of White-Hall What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear The public burthen of the nation's care. - Matthew Prior, Solomon (bk. III, l. 275) To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.] - Armand Jean du Plessis Duc de Richelieu, Miranne Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands, We two--ach! Don't you understand? Myself--und Gott. - Alexander McGregor Rose (used pseudonym A.M.R. Gordon), Kaiser & Co., later called Hoch der Kaiser, published in the Montreal "Herald", Oct. 1897, after the Kaiser's speech on the Divine Right of Kings When kings are building, draymen have something to do. [Ger., Wenn die Konige bau'n, haben die Karrner zu thun.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Kant und Seine Ausleger For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. - Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (canto V, st. 9) O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee! - Michel Jean Sedaine, Richard Coeur de Lion--Blondel's Song The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy. [Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam pati.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Hercules Furens (CCCLIII) The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco Haud stabile regnum est.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Hercules Furens (CCCXLIV) Every monarch is subject to a mightier one. [Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Hercules Furens (DCXIV) Let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings: How some have been depos'd, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd, Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd, All murder'd. - William Shakespeare Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares. - William Shakespeare His legs bestrid the ocean: his reared arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at V, ii) The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on without Good morrow to the sun. - William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Belarius at III, iii) There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at IV, v) Displaying page 3 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5
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