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  • Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer.

    Kings   Queens   Cancer  
    Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.127, Macmillan
  • There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

    Kings   Queens   Real  
  • Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

    Kings   Children   Wife  
    'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [250]
  • I know I have 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.

    Speech to troops at Tilbury, England (1588).
  • There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would.

    "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark".
  • We all deserve to live in a world where our rights aren't violated at the whim of our leaders. It doesn't matter if our leaders are kings and queens, or the people who claim to save us from them.

    Kings   Queens   Rights  
  • Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.

    Queens   Kings   Couple  
    Anne Sexton (1996). “El Asesino y otros poemas”, p.73, Icaria Editorial
  • This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

    'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40
  • In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.

  • The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.

    Dream   Art   Kings  
    FaceBook post by Ronnie James Dio from Sep 06, 2012
  • Flesh and blood, You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian- Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong- Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee, Unnatural though thou art.

    Art   Strong   Brother  
    William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.18
  • We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.

    Daughter   Queens   Kings  
  • In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween!

    Jack Prelutsky (1977). “It's Halloween”, Scholastic Paperbacks
  • We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.

  • Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

    Queens   Kings   Pride  
    "LeBron's pride simply not important". abcnews.go.com. July 11, 2014.
  • Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

    Queens   Kings   Teaching  
    "Adventures Of a Mathematician" by Martin Gardner, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1976.
  • I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

    Kings   Queens   Coffee  
    "March on Washington had one female speaker: Josephine Baker". Josephine Baker's speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. August 28, 1963.
  • Titus Andronicus, my lord the Emperor Sends thee this word, that, if thou love thy sons, Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus, Or any one of you, chop off your hand And send it to the King: he for the same Will send thee hither both thy sons alive, And that shall be the ransom for their fault.

    Kings   Son   Hands  
    William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1819). “Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.419
  • Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

    Kings   Queens   Soul  
    Michelle Moran (2011). “Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution”, p.440, Broadway Books
  • Besides, our nearness to the King in love Is near the hate of those love not the King.

    Kings   Hate   Love Is  
    William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.288, Cengage Learning EMEA
  • Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it. Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time. We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures.

    Queens   Kings   Mean  
    Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.272, Oneworld Publications
  • It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

    Kings   Queens   Eerie  
  • Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.

    Kings   Queens   Europe  
    Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com
  • The outsiders have become kings and queens of the castle. It is a whole lot easier to sit outside the tent and throw firecrackers inside; it is much, much harder to sit inside the tent and govern not only your enemies, but your close friends as well.

    Queens   Kings   Enemy  
    Hal Rothman (2007). “Playing the Odds: Las Vegas and the Modern West”, p.135, UNM Press
  • For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.

    Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”
  • If you be King, why should not I succeed?

    Kings   Succeed   Should  
    William Shakespeare, Edward Hall, Roger Warren (2001). “Rose Rage: Adapted from Shakespeare's Henry VI Plays”, p.86, Oberon Books
  • I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries. Columbus is coming from the Indies as a prisoner to Cadiz.

    Country   Kings   Queens  
    Letter to Dona Juana de Torres, Oct. 1500
  • Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.

    Kings   Queens   Fear  
  • Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

    'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Monarchy'
  • I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

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