Quotes by King James I

King James I

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.

Cigarette Smoke

Eye

Sports

Dr Donne’s verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.

Donne

Drs

Understanding

God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.

Giving

Kings

Thrones

God has power to create, or destroy, make, or unmake at his pleasure, to give life, or send death, to judge all, and to be judged nor accountable to none: to raise low things, and to make high things low at his pleasure, and to God are both soul and body due. And the like power have Kings; they make and unmake their subjects: they have power of raising, and casting down: of life, and of death: judges over all their subjects, and in all causes, and yet accountable to none but God only.

Judging

Kings

Soul And Body

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God’s good gifts, that the sweetness of man’s breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

Men

Should

Vanity

I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions…Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.

Errors

Mother

War

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

Gentleman

I Can

Lord

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

Common

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

Kings

Men

Wish

If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. … No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.

Devil

Kings

Land

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Quotes by King James I

King James I

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.

Dr Donne’s verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.

God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God’s good gifts, that the sweetness of man’s breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions…Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. … No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.

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