Orson Scott Card Quotes

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

Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it.

The authority of a king is the keystone which closeth up the arch of order and government

You are for kings the ears with which they hear, the eyes with which they see, the tongues with which they speak, the hands with which they strike.

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 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

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

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

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

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.

Fear created gods; boldness created kings.

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

I am master here and while I’m alive, the kingdom of Katanga shall have no other master than me.

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

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

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.

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

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.

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