Quotes of Monarchy - somelinesforyou

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

- Marquis de Vauvenargues

“ It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work. ”

- Cat Stevens

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

- Rudyard Kipling

“ 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

“ A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ And kind as kings upon their coronation day. ”

- John Dryden

“ 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

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

- Samuel Butler

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

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ There was a king of Thule, Was faithful till the grave, To whom his mistress dying, A golden goblet gave. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. ”

- Bible

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

- George Herbert

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

- William Habington

“ 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

“ That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. ”

- Sir William Blackstone

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

- Ovid

“ In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do. ”

- Gianni Versace

“ People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. ”

- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

“ Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. ”

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. ”

- Anthony Sampson

“ 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

“ Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Kings are like stars — they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ 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

“ Yet looks he like a king. Behold, his eye, As bright as is the eagle's lightens forth Controlling majesty. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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

“ And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns. ”

- William Shakespeare
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