Once a King, always a King. But once a Knight is enough!
Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.[La grammaire, qui sçait régenter jusqu’aux rois.]
Good kings are the only dangerous enemies that modern democracy has and when he has begun by banishing me you may be sure he intends to be a patriot.
By blood a king, at heart a clown.
Better any king than chaos.
And any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king at all.
All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.
All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.
A Tsar is history’s slave.[Царь – есть раб истории.]
