Royalty Quotes

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Benjamin Disraeli

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Herbert Spencer

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

Bob Woodward

-Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something.The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?- No, Matthew. What do they say?- The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.

Neil Gaiman

They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.

Frederick the Great

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

Frederick the Great

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

Charles James Fox

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

Mark Twain

I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.

Queen's Mother Elizabeth

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better.

Elizabeth I

I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. 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.

Elizabeth I

Kings have many ears and eyes.

Proverb

He that can work is born to be king of something.

Thomas Carlyle

From his childhood onwards this boy will be surrounded by sycophants and flatterers. In due course, following the precedent which has already been set, he will be sent on a tour of the world and probably rumors of a morganatic marriage alliance will follow, and the end of it will be the country will be called upon to pay the bill.

James Keir Hardie

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Oscar Wilde

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Walter Bagehot

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

Walter Bagehot

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Walter Bagehot

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Walter Bagehot

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

Christopher Marlowe