{"quotes":[{"text":"Lord Tierney was furious. But when he saw how his sister had suffered, his anger shifted instead toward Rome. “If it weren’t for this new menace on the horizon,” he thundered, “I’d declare war on those haughty deceivers this instant!”Marcus stepped forward. “Kyrie, I don’t think—'“Then don’t!","author":"Jennifer McKeithen","tags":["atlantis","humor","ker-ys","kings","rome","war"],"id":8099,"author_id":"Jennifer+McKeithen"},{"text":"For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.","author":"Cameron Dokey","tags":["kings","men","shahrazad","storyteller"],"id":10154,"author_id":"Cameron+Dokey"},{"text":"There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...Well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.","author":"David Gemmell","tags":["evil","humanity","kings","leadership","treachery"],"id":10375,"author_id":"David+Gemmell"},{"text":"In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["dreams","kings","lives","loss","queens","rulership"],"id":14349,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"},{"text":"Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.","author":"Mabel Hale","tags":["kings","mothers","power"],"id":16832,"author_id":"Mabel+Hale"},{"text":"The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","appreciate","appreciation","funny","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","king","kings","prince","princes","princess","princesses","queen","queens","quotations","quotes","satire","unappreciated"],"id":36428,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The tall, thin serious man strode in, his dark cloak billowing so dramatically it threatened to extinguish the lamp flame with its draught. He advanced like a malevolent shadow consuming the dim orange light, filling the room with a presence almost more than human.","author":"Gregory Figg","tags":["british","historical-fiction","kings","medieval-fantasy","medieval-literature","wales"],"id":38274,"author_id":"Gregory+Figg"},{"text":"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.","author":"William Morris","tags":["art","people","kings "],"id":42075,"author_id":"William+Morris"},{"text":"Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.","author":"Julian Assange","tags":["kings","down","always "],"id":49506,"author_id":"Julian+Assange"},{"text":"He was king, if he didn’t have enemies he wasn’t doing it right.","author":"S.E. Zbasnik","tags":["enemies","fantasy","humorous","kings","monarchy-humor"],"id":65381,"author_id":"S.E.+Zbasnik"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":96,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}