“ It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work. ”
- Cat Stevens- Copy
- 997
“ Over all good things certain, this is sure indeed, Suffer not the old King, for we know the breed. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 1K
“ They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a Prince as soon as his groom. ”
- Ben Jonson- Copy
- 3K
“ A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping. ”
- Ben Jonson- Copy
- 315
“ I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone. ”
- Princess Anne of England- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Whatever I can say or do. I'm sure not much avails; I shall still Vicar be of Bray, Whichever side prevails. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 2.2K
“ There was a king of Thule, Was faithful till the grave, To whom his mistress dying, A golden goblet gave. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 1.6K
“ As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave. ”
- William Habington- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties. ”
- Agatha Christie- Copy
- 3.5K
“ That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. ”
- Sir William Blackstone- Copy
- 1.8K
“ In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do. ”
- Gianni Versace- Copy
- 66
“ People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. ”
- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree- Copy
- 985
“ Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 993
“ The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 248
“ Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. ”
- Anthony Sampson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 670
“ Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Kings are like stars — they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Why, our battalia trebles that account: Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength, Which they upon the adverse faction want. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 983
“ Yet looks he like a king. Behold, his eye, As bright as is the eagle's lightens forth Controlling majesty. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.7K
“ A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as dot an inland brook Into the main of waters. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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