King

Famous quotes containing the word king:

“...if I perish, I perish.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Esther 4:16.

Queen Esther, as she gathers strength to go to the king on behalf of her people.

“If I asked her master he’d give me a cask a day;
But she, with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange!
May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten, and may
The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)

“Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise King born of all England.”
—Thomas Malory (c. 1430–1471)