Royalty Quotes

My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.

Fetty Wap

I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am.

Sarah Miller

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

Megan Whalen Turner

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

Queen Victoria

A king should die on his feet.

Louis XVIII

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Northrop Frye

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

Ovid

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

George Orwell

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.

Princess of Wales Diana

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Princess of Wales Diana

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

Princess of Wales Diana

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.

King James I

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

John Dryden

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Prince Of Wales Charles

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

George Bernard Shaw

Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.

Michel de Montaigne

If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king.

Jordan Grooms

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

George Bernard Shaw

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

Anthony Sampson