“ Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 3.3K
“ That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. ”
- Sir William Blackstone- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 286
“ The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave. ”
- William Habington- Copy
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“ He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything. ”
- Marquis de Vauvenargues- Copy
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“ I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant, With cavaliers are cavaliers And with the saints, a saint. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ 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
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“ I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down, A Cloak and Band I then put on, And preached against the Crown. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ That man is deceived who thinks it slavery to live under an excellent prince. Never does liberty appear in a more gracious form than under a pious king. ”
- Claudian- Copy
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“ 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
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“ 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
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“ On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead. ”
- Helen Hunt Jackson- Copy
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“ God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe. ”
- James I of England- Copy
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“ A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping. ”
- Ben Jonson- Copy
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“ 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
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“ Over all good things certain, this is sure indeed, Suffer not the old King, for we know the breed. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 553
“ The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
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“ Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering but not beneath his shoulders broad. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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