James I Quotes

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Beware in making your sporters your councellors, and delight not to keepe ordinarily in your companie comedians or balladines.

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

James I
I made the carles lords, but who made the carlines ladies?

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.

James I
I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.

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

James I
Speaking to a fly:
Have I three kingdoms and thou must needs fly into my eye?

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A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

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

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That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.

James I
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.

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Out of the law of God, the duty, and allegiance of the people to their lawful King, their obedience, I say, ought to be to him, as to God's Lieutenant in earth, obeying his commands in all things, except directly against God, as the commands of Gods Minister, acknowledging him a Judge set by God over them, having power to judge them, but to be judged only by God.

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The king is truly parens patriae, the politic father of his people.

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The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth; for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called gods.

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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.

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