Quotes of Sovereignty - somelinesforyou

“ Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave. ”

- William Habington

“ The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. ”

- George Herbert

“ He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything. ”

- Marquis de Vauvenargues

“ In that fierce light which beats upon a throne. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Whatever I can say or do. I'm sure not much avails; I shall still Vicar be of Bray, Whichever side prevails. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Over all good things certain, this is sure indeed, Suffer not the old King, for we know the breed. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A partial world will list to my lays, While Anna reigns, and sets a female name Unrival'd in the glorious lists of fame. ”

- Edward Young

“ Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

“ 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

“ The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement. ”

- Alija Izetbegović

“ If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king. ”

- Jordan Grooms

“ 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

“ Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings. ”

- William R. Alger

“ 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. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ The office of the president is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. ”

- Jimmy Breslin

“ The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. ”

- Jimmy Breslin

“ Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. ”

- William Pitt Chatham

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

“ Independence now: and Independence forever. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ Now let us sing, long live the king. ”

- William Cowper

“ Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Many a crown Covers bald foreheads. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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