Quotes about Monarch

George R. R. Martin

No one who wears a crown is ever safe.

Herodotus

The Ethiopians … are said to be the tallest and handsomest men in the whole world. In their customs they differ greatly from the rest of mankind, and particularly in the way they choose their kings; for they find out the man who is the tallest of all the citizens, and of strength equal to his height, and appoint him to rule over them.

Ben Jonson

A good king is a public servant.

Nelson Mandela

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

King James I

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth, for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth and sit upon God's throne.

King James VI of Scotland

Frank Ocean

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

Empress Dowager Cixi

Do you know, I have often thought that I am the cleverest woman who ever lived and that others cannot compare with me. Although I have heard much about Queen Victoria ... still I don't think her life is half as interesting and eventful as mine. Now look at me, I have 400 million people all dependent on my judgment.

Indeed she did. In actuality, she was the ruler of the largest nation on Earth. However, she was not a very clever ruler and actually was responsible for keeping China very backward and weak because she was convinced that China was the most advanced of nations and very strong. Therefore nothing should be changed. Over 5 decades with no change is sure to make a nation backward, even if it started as advanced. See {620090}.

John Dryden

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

Muammar Qaddafi

I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

King Abdullah is a reformer.

Lao Tzu

One who takes on the humiliation of the State Is called a Ruler: worthy of offering sacrifices to the gods of earth millet; One who takes on himself the calamity of the State Is called a King: worthy of dominion over the entire Empire.

Legal maxim

The king never dies. Rex nunquam moritur.

As soon as the king dies, his successor is immediately vested in the rights, duties, and prerogatives of the king.

James Cameron

I'm King Of The World!!!

William F. Buckley Jr.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

Harold Evans

You need a head of state--with continuity. Sometimes this is more important than political power.

William Petty

If a great multitude of men should call one of their number King, unless this instituted Prince, appear in greater visible splendor then others, can reward those that obey and please him, and do the contrary to others; his Institution signifies little, even although he chance to have greater corporal or mental faculties, than any other of the number

James Monroe

A king without power is an absurdity.

Pierre Corneille

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

Henry VIII

We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so high in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, when we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together in one body politic.

At the time there was no concept of serious separation of powers. For all practical purposes, the King ruled and he shared some of his powers with the Parliament. The next centuries in England would see the great battle for governmental power between the monarch and the Parliament. Today, the British monarch has no power but still retains a great deal of influence in England but largely because Queen Elisabeth is so well loved and respected.