“It's good to be king, If just for a while.
To be there in velvet, yea to give 'em a smile.
It's good to get high, and never comedown.
It's good to be king of your own little town.”
It's Good To Be King
Lyrics, Wildflowers (1994)
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Bill Burr (1968) American actor, comedian and a celebrity podcaster
Premium Blend, episode [2.03], June 20, 1998
“It's good to be king and have your own way,
Get a feeling of peace at the end of the day.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
It's Good To Be King
Lyrics, Wildflowers (1994)
“Good kings are the enemies of democracy.”
Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
George Raymond Richard Martin (1948) American writer, screenwriter and television producer
On a panel with R. Scott Bakker in Semana Negra, Spain (2008)
“There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.”
Sarah Grimké (1792–1873) American abolitionist
Letter 9 (August 25, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
Miriam A. Ferguson (1875–1961) American politician
Attributed, for example, by http://web.archive.org/20090806185021/www.international.ucla.edu/burkle/article.asp?parentid=2198, which contains a common version of the story, where Ferguson says this while holding a bible and defending her objection to the teaching of Spanish in Texas public schools <br class="br">According to http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003084.html, a variation on this quote is reported in the New York Times on May 23, 1881, but no record of Ferguson having said this, or anything like it, could be found <br class="br">This quote and variations on it are often frequently attributed to others; one story, usually heard outside the United States, has an unnamed "U.S. congressman" saying it in a television interview; for example, see http://ontrapranur.blogspot.com/2008/05/if-english-was-good-enough-for-jesus.html <br class="br">Misattributed
“A good household manager, but not fit to meddle in the affairs of kings.”
Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex (1485–1540) English statesman and chief minister to King Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII to the French ambassador, May 1538.
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Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist
Pt. II, l. 313. <br class="br"> The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)
