Best 99 quotes in «royal quotes» category

You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees Excerpt from To Kiss a King by Grace Willows Coming this summer to Amazon Kindle and paperback.

What if pretending is interfering with the person you’re meant to be?” he said.

Want to sleep over?

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

Youths are the life blood of any nation.

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

An Englishman, methinks,--not to speak of other European nations,--habitually regards himself merely as a constituent part of theEnglish nation; he is a member of the royal regiment of Englishmen, and is proud of his company, as he has reason to be proud of it. But an American--one who has made tolerable use of his opportunities--cares, comparatively, little about such things, and is advantageously nearer to the primitive and the ultimate condition of man in these respects.

An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!

... as a rule of thumb, whenever there appears a plural, correct for a singular. Should I ever let slip a royal WE, put me out of my misery with a swift blow to the head.

Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.

A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid?an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at thetop, and? It isinvisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, asgood a material as any tobuild a life from.

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal?

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

If you ask me why I've succeeded it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

I need it! I need it! It's a royal heirloom!" "Adrian?" "What are you doing here?" "Looking for you. Come on, we need to go. I'll drive you home." "No, I can't. Not until we get it. He stole it!

In fact, the Gospel shows us change comes from the bottom rather than the top, from an old rugged cross rather than a gold royal throne.

In the spirit of the Irish people, Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish ass!

I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear.

It is outrageous that the Queen has invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco.

My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.