Terry Pratchett Quotes

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings.

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

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

No one who wears a crown is ever safe.

It's great to be queen!

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

An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.

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

Your governor is but a subject of King Charles of England. I shall not treat with a subject. I shall treat of peace only with the King, my brother. When he comes, I am ready.

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

She certainly is a great queen, and were she only a Catholic she would be our dearly beloved. Just look how well she governs; she is only a woman, only mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all.

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

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

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

I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

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

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

It's good to be the king.

I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms.

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

You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.