King of Scotland

Famous quotes containing the words king of, king and/or scotland:

    Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 2:2.

    The Wise men.

    An illiterate king is a crowned ass.
    —Medieval English proverb.

    Said by the chronicler William of Malmesbury to have been much used by King Henry I of England (1068-1135)

    A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
    James I of England, James VI of Scotland (1566–1625)