Best 99 quotes in «royal quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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 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 don't have a saviour or a royal family.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium.

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.

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.

Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time.

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

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.

Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers. I mention this solely to remind you that linguists are not kidding when they say … that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.

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

On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.

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

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

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.

Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.

Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.

Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.

Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs.

Royal titles ceased to be recognised by the Indian government in 1971. The title of Nawab and Maharaja are not recognised by the Indian government anymore.

Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.

Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.