Quotes About Monarchs

We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.

as is done by the newest historians, we shall have the history of monarchs and writers, but not the history of the life of the peoples.

Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.

The monuments of dead monarchs draw together, as if their bones were counselling each other; and the prophetic pavements beneath them, those stones of onyx, porphyry, green serpentine and glass, advise us through their inscriptions how many years the world will last.

I think we should consider our roles as monarchs to be largely decorative. It would be better for the low Courts and the solitary Folk to work things out on their own.

I decided to play the hero. See how it felt. To try.' 'And?' she asks. 'I didn't like it,' he admits. 'Henceforth, I think we should consider our roles as monarchs to be largely decorative. It would be better for the low Courts and the solitary Folk to work things out on their own.' 'I think you have iron poisoning,' she tells him, which could possibly be true but is still a hurtful thing to say when he is making perfect sense.

And I decided to play the hero. See how it felt. To try." "And?" she asks. "I didn't like it," he admits. "Henceforth, I think we should consider our roles as monarchs to be largely decorative. It would be better for the low Courts and the solitary Folk to work things out on their own." "I think you have iron poisoning," she tells him, which could possibly be true but is still a hurtful thing to say when he is making perfect sense.

In 1828 the British historian Macaulay dubbed the press gallery in Parliament a 'fourth estate' of the realm. Today the news media appear to have become the first estate able to topple monarchs and turn Parliament into a talking shop which ceases to exist if journalists turn their backs.

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

a los dioses y nobles monarcas persuaden los dones

All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

And with fear of change perplexes monarchs

it implies that initially there may have been quite a lot of kingdoms

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

I would parade you in the hall of the monarchs of the ocean if you could breathe water.

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

the Union of these States—Monarchs form alliances—Republics form leagues—but here, behold a band of brothers.

Thus, in The Lion they become monarchs under sovereign Jove; in Prince Caspian they harden under strong Mars; in The Dawn Treader they drink light under searching Sol; in The Silver Chair they learn obedience under subordinate Luna; in The Horse and His Boy they come to love poetry under eloquent Mercury; in the Magicians Nephew they gain life-giving fruit under fertile Venus; and in the Last Battle they suffer and die under chilling Saturn.

Los monarcas vienen y van, pero el mundo sigue necesitando médicos