Famous quotes containing the words matthew and/or king:
“Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 7:3.
Jesus.
“When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, “Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can” —and walked out of the room.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)