Royalty Quotes

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

 

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king. - Thomas Hardy

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. - Napoleon Bonaparte

 

All the time I feel I must justify my existence. - Prince of Wales Charles

 

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum -- which does not happen to a lot of people. - Prince Philip Edinburgh

 

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 the State.-Louis XIV

 

Ay every inch a king.- William Shakespeare

 

Put not your trust in princes.-Bible

 

The king reigns but does not govern.-Jan Zamoyski

 

The King is dead! Long live the King!-Pardoe

 

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.-William Shakespeare

 

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.-Samuel Johnson

 

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.-Thomas Carlyle

 

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.-Sir William Blackstone

 
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