Best 142 quotes in «royalty quotes» category

You are all dear to me. it is simply a matter of discovering who shall be the dearest.

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.

You boys may be gentlemen," Dusty said. "But I'm about to shoot like a lady. You ready, baby?

You still haven’t told me what King Edward will do when he has all four relics,’ Robert said, fixing Humphrey with his gaze. ‘We aren’t privy to all his plans, Robert, as I’ve told you. Only the men of the Round Table know his full intentions. We have to prove ourselves worthy to be trusted as they are.’ ‘Do you not ever wonder?’ Humphrey paused. ‘I just know my king will do what is best for my kingdom.’ Robert said nothing. He thought of his own kingdom, beleaguered by Edward’s interference, and a ghost of a threat drifted in his mind. But even as it appeared, he pushed it away. Scotland was its own kingdom, with its own king. It wasn’t Wales or Ireland, fractured and isolated. However much Edward had desired the Crown of Arthur he had come here, first and foremost, to put down a rebellion. Yet still, on this bleak shore with Humphrey beside him, Robert felt a sense of standing at a crossroads with many paths leading away before him. In his mind they all led into darkness.

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

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.

How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.

I'd like to be queen of people's hearts.

If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

You may not look like it yet but there is a King in you. Don't concern yourself with the praisers and mockers, focus on the task at hand and give it all you have got. Your mockers and critics will end up your subject when stay with what your calling. I see a King in you, I see Royalty all about you.

You’re my princess, right? You were always going to be my princess, no matter what you were born, no matter who your dad married.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there are politicians from the 1800s as well as Tuskegee Airmen in my lineage.

I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world.

I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of - or reincarnated from - royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.

Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on without Good morrow to the sun.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

A collection of chairs seems to show someone that is used to resting while others get the work done. I have no use for finely crafted furniture.

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.

All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one. I feel ill-used." So he made up his mind to be cross with his wife about it. But she bore it all like a good patient queen as she was.

...alone is such a nebulous state when one is queen.

Appartenir à une patrie, c'est aussi s'engager pour le siècle où l'on y vit (source: émission sur la Russie sur Arte le 28/02/2012). Nos démocraties ne valent que par les hommes qui les servent. Elles ne sont donc jamais parfaites mais elles reposent sur un socle inamovible. Le passé renforce le présent et les pas hésitants qui conduisent à ce présent trouvent le chemin de l'avenir. TELL ME WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE AND I WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE

You might be a redneck if Exxon and Conoco have offered you royalties for your hair.

As a genealogist, I have seen the Big Picture as very few have. Most people now living have no clue who they are or where they come from. We are all descended from the ancient kings of our various cultures. There is nothing unique about it. And let's be honest, most of those kings were pretty ruthless individuals. What's important for us today is that we wake up to the fact that we are all literally cousins. How would our world change if we honored that relationship and started treating one another as family?

As it comes down, carefully situate the sun on yourself like a paper crown, so the light of the universe never sets on your dreams.

At the negotiations in Irvine, it became clear to me that there was no side I could stand on. The English despise me and my countrymen don’t trust me. Wallace and the others are rebelling in the name of Balliol. I cannot fight with them. It would be as much a betrayal of my oath as when I was fighting for England. I know what I must do. What I should have done months ago.’ Robert felt embarrassed, about to say the words. Inside, his father’s voice berated him, but he silenced it. ‘I want you to weave my destiny,’ he finished. ‘As you did for my grandfather.’ When she spoke, her voice was low. ‘And what is your destiny?’ He met her eyes now, all hesitation and embarrassment gone. ‘To be King of Scotland.’ A smile appeared at the corners of her mouth. It wasn’t a soft smile. It was hard and dangerous. ‘I will need something of yours,’ she said, rising.

Aurora looked into the mirror and smiled. She was pretty. She was a royal princess. There was about to be a ball. These were things she could, once in a while, allow herself to be happy about.

Be calm...calm as a calm lagoon, then you will look beautiful as a beautiful calm lagoon crowned by the Moon and sheltered by the brilliance of the stars reclaiming your royalty of regal life...

Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his heirs and the arbiter of good taste and modesty.

Cursed the crown that brought such grief to me

Dear, dear, it only shows that there is nothing diviner about a king than there is about a tramp, after all. He is just a cheap and hollow artificiality when you don't know he is a king. But reveal his quality, and dear me it takes your very breath away to look at him. I reckon we are all fools. Born so, no doubt.

Det är min erfarenhet att kvinnor endast spelar stränga i kärlek och att deras bannor när en man närgånget uppvaktar dem egentligen inte är så allvarligt menade, utan tvärtom ofta ett rop efter mer. Kvinnorna vill ha äran av att låtsas motstånd och en man som vid första motgång låter sig nedslås är intet annat än en mes," orerade hertigen.

Det finns så många idiotisk regler. Gud skapade människan till sin avbild, så predikar prästerna i kyrkorna. Varför kan då inte kvinnorna ha samma rättigheter som män? /.../ För att Jesus inte var kvinna? Men var kom HAN ifrån då? Jo, det ska jag säga er, han kom från Gud och en kvinna.

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.