Saladin Quotes

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

Kings scarcely recognize themselves as mortals, scarcely understand that which pertains to man, except on the day they are made king or on the day they die. On the former day they feign humility and gentleness, in the hope of capturing the voice of the people. On the latter, having death before their eyes, they confess what is a fact, namely that they are wretchedly mortal.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

No one is king by his own power.

Kings! Why, what's a king? .... Is their blood purer than our own? We are all the seed of Abraham!

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

You may rely upon one thing — I'll never engage in creating kings again; it's too great a strain.

When you're the king of someplace, you don't voluntarily leave.

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

It's good to be the king.

It's great to be queen!

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

I'm a King. Regardless of what I've been through and what I've done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

A people may let a king fall and still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

Power is more satisfying to some than wealth.... Power is, indeed, a heady thing—whether it be a King, a President, a Legislature, a Court, or an Administration agency that is concerned.

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

Kings need the company of the intelligent far more than the intelligent need the company of kings.

On the most exalted throne in the world, we are still seated on nothing but our arse.

One who takes on the humiliation of the State Is called a Ruler: worthy of offering sacrifices to the gods of earth millet; One who takes on himself the calamity of the State Is called a King: worthy of dominion over the entire Empire.

Every Man A King

Princes, sovereigns, and king have not been given supreme authority in order to live in luxurious self-indulgence and debauchery. They have not been elevated by their fellow-men to enable them to strut about and to insult with their pride the simple-mannered, the poor, and the suffering. They have not been placed at the head of the State to keep around themselves a crowd of idle loafers whose uselessness drives them towards vice. The bad administration which may be found in monarchies springs from many different causes, but their principal cause lies in the character of the sovereign