Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

All monarchies have a common characteristic...and that is stubbornness.

Kings are the publick Pillars of the State Born to sustain and prop the Nation's weight.

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

Counsel passes all things to him which thinketh to be a king.

Kings are for nations in swaddling clothes.

I have no right to be a king, but I have the right to create a king.

In Spain the king rules, but in the Sierra I do.

Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

That might sound shocking to some - and don't worry, I don't see myself as a king.

Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings, Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings, When ordinary people who are like you and me, Are the builders of their destiny...

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

It is well to be born either a king or a fool.

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

To the glistening Eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy, the Valiant. To the great Western Wood, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant Southern sun, Queen Susan, the Gentle; and to the clear Northern sky I give you King Peter, the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen. May your wisdom grace us 'til the stars rain down from the heavens.

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

It's good to be the king.

Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

It's great to be queen!

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.