In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.
My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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.
He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.
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.
A king should die on his feet.
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.
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.
Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.
I'd like to be queen of people's hearts.
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.
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
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.
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