#kings

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. ↗

— George Sand

#bought #brows #earth #far #having

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#given #god #kings #me #princes

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#happy #i #kings #number #should

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

#captain #chair #company #day #england

Kings are in the moral order what monsters are in the natural. ↗

— Henri Gregoire

#monsters #moral #natural #order

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#divine #get #kings #means #right

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#down #experts #fall #kings #overthrown

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

#affections #answer #armies #birth #death

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

#divine #heart #human #human heart #image

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. ↗

— Charles Davenport

#custom #even #keep #kings #law