Famous quotes containing the words christian and/or king:
“Tyranny produces two results, exactly opposite in character, and which are symbolized in those two great types of the slave in classical timesEpictetus and Spartacus. The one is hatred with its evil train, the other meekness with its Christian graces.”
—Honoré De Balzac (17991850)
“Our king went forth to Normandy,
With grace and might of chivalry,
The God for him wrought marvellously,
Wherefore England may call and cry
Deo gratias, Deo gratias Anglia
Redde pro victoria.”
—Unknown. The Agincourt Carol (l. 16)