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That’s how all the great houses started, isn’t it? With a hard bastard who was good at killing people. Game of Thrones s8e4: The Last of the Starks, Bronn to Tyrion & Jaime, Netflix 2019
You perceive the body of our kingdom – how foul it is, with what rank diseases grown and with what danger near the heart of it. The Hollow Crown: Henry IV part II ***** starring Jeremy Irons & Simon Russell Beale & Tom Hiddleston & Alun Armstrong & David Bamber & Julie Walters & Niamh Cusack & David Dawson & Michaelle Dockery et al, director Richard Eyre, King, BBC 2012
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is soonest winner. The Hollow Crown: Henry V starring Tim Hiddleston & Geraldine Chaplin & Paul Freeman & Julie Walters & John Hurt & Tom Georgeson & Richard Griffiths & Paterson Joseph & James Laurenson et al, director Thea Sharrock, Henry V, BBC 2012
Know we have divided
In three our kingdom, and ’tis our first intent
To shake all cares and business off our state. William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear I i 37-40, Lear
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. Seneca
A good mind possesses a kingdom. Seneca
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My mind’s my kingdom. Francis Quarles
And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows. Mark Twain
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves. The true kingdom for each of us. And true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. Oscar Wilde
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get. Napoleon Bonaparte
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ. Charles de Montesquieu
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. Martin Luther King
Pre-Roman Britain was in fact a collection of often feudal tribal kingdoms. Dr Francis Pryor, Britain AD: King Arthur’s Britain I, Channel 4 2004