“Would the king of punks be a cliché? Oh, no, vicar.”

— John Lydon

Interview with Los Angeles Times, 2015

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English singer, songwriter, and musician 1956

Keith Roberts book Pavane

Fifth measure “The White Boat” (p. 179)
Pavane (1968)

“Oh, happy kings,
Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts.”

John Ford (dramatist) Perkin Warbeck

Perkin Warbeck, Act III, sc. i. (c. 1629-34)

“Oh no—I can clip through the rock, too. You are f**king kidding me.”

TotalBiscuit (1984–2018) British game commentator

WTF Is…? series, Guise of the Wolf (January 26, 2014), Research stream

“Oh, when shall English men
With such acts fill a pen,
Or England breed again
Such a King Harry?”

Michael Drayton (1563–1631) English poet

Source: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 117-120.

“Who o'er the herd would wish to reign,
Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain!
Vain as the leaf upon the stream,
And fickle as a changeful dream;
Fantastic as a woman's mood,
And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood.
Thou many-headed monster thing,
Oh who would wish to be thy king!”

Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet

Canto V, stanza 30.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

“Neither punk nor prom king, Mayer was a tall kid from Connecticut, driving on the freeways, chasing slippery techno women, inhabiting a world of parents and slipcovers and holidays and gracious Southeastern metropolises; he was smart, inquisitive, articulate, a touch off in places.”

John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

Hunter, James (2003-10-02), "Corduroy Boy" http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/300650/johnmayer?pageid=rs.ArtistDiscography&pageregion=triple1. Rolling Stone. (932):116 Retrieved October 2, 2003

“The world is full of kings and queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams,
It’s heaven and hell, oh well.”

Ronnie James Dio (1942–2010) American singer

"Heaven and Hell" on Heaven and Hell (1980)
Lyrics

“For she would be Queen of Lumatere.

But he would be king to her.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“I would like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings.
I would like to be watching Heaven's family drinking it through all eternity.”

Brigit of Kildare (451–525) Irish abbess and saint

Prayer traditionally attributed to St. Brigit, as quoted in Prayers of the Saints: An Inspired Collection of Holy Wisdom (1996), by Woodeene Koenig-Bricker, p. 77
Context: I would like the angels of Heaven to be among us.
I would like an abundance of peace.
I would like full vessels of charity.
I would like rich treasures of mercy.
I would like cheerfulness to preside over all.
I would like Jesus to be present.
I would like the three Marys of illustrious renown to be with us.
I would like the friends of Heaven to be gathered around us from all parts.
I would like myself to be a rent payer to the Lord; that I should suffer distress, that he would bestow a good blessing upon me.
I would like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings.
I would like to be watching Heaven's family drinking it through all eternity.

“If I were not a king, I would be a teacher.”

Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1906–1975) King of Saudi Arabia

https://www.kff.com/king-faisal-bin-abdulaziz/

“Would the king of punks be a cliché? Oh, no, vicar.”

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