John Heywood Quotes

A cat may looke on a King.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others.

I don't curtsy to Frank Sinatra and I'm not going to curtsy to a fucking king.

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

Whether the institution to be defended is slavery, political absolutism, or the absolutism of the head of a family, we are always expected to judge of it from its best instances; and we are presented with pictures of loving exercise of authority on one side, loving submission to it on the other

[There] are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; The subject, not the citizen; for kings And subjects, mutual foes, forever play A losing game into each other's hands, Whose stakes are vice and misery. The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

The king can drink the best of wine -So can I;And has enough when he would dine -So have I;And can not order rain or shine -Nor can I.Then where's the difference - let me see -Betwixt my lord the king and me?

As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is that republics came to the world to make sure that no one is more than anyone else. The pomp of office is like something left over from a feudal past: "You need a palace, red carpet, a lot of people behind you saying, 'Yes, sir.' I think all of that is awful."

Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.

To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king.

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

If you play a king, it's better if everybody treats you like a king.

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king.

The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.