Royalty Quotes

Actually, I think the Princess has no rights whatever. She was born a lady, came into the world in her right mind, ought to have known what was implied by marrying the heir to the throne, and accordingly put up with whatever befell her. In fact, duty.

I do not call majesty that pomp which surrounds kings or that exterior magnificence which dazzles the vulgar. That is but the reflection of majesty and not majesty itself. Majesty is the image of the grandeur of God in the prince.

I am king. I am lord. I am praiseworthy. I am important. I am magnificent. I am foremost. I am a hero. I am a warrior. I am a lion, and I am virile.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

The kings are ravenous beasts, their ministers are dogs.

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

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.

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

The king must never appear in public except when the occasion is extremely important or unavoidable.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.

… something with monarchical power in it would be most effectual for the settlement of the nation

I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Kings are the publick Pillars of the State Born to sustain and prop the Nation's weight.

Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the Children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry

When I lived in Paris in the early '80s, I had the occasion to hang out with Prince Albert of Monaco quite a few times.

We will cut off his head with the crown upon it.

Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland to govern the people of this kingdom well and justly than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world

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

People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.