Quotes About Monarch

A king was the Lord's anointed, hallowed at his coronation with holy oil.

Loss of that loyalty, respect and trust would destroy the Cobriana. Loss of their royal line would destroy the serpiente. If the serpiente refused to acknowledge Danica's child as their monarch, no number of guards would be able to keep that child on the throne. I had walked this precarious balance before, when I had declared Danica my mate. If necessary, I would do it again.

The richest monarch in the Christian world;The sun in my own dominions never sets.

I sit here like a monarch on his throne I've got my sceptre, but no crown to call my own -Mephistopheles

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

That which her slender waist confin'dShall now my joyful temples bind;No monarch but would give his crownHis arms might do what this has done.

He is Lord of lords, and King of kings.

The king of terrors.

Her co-monarch, Ptolemy XV Caesar, was the son whom she claimed, almost certainly truthfully, to have had by Julius Caesar.

Even a future monarch doesn't always want to do what she is supposed to do.

It is too well known, that the second George never was an Augustus to learning or genius.

Aodh Críostóir Ruadhán O'Dubhuir, also known as the Shadow King,

Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist?

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

Truly a rare opportunity was given to Marcus Aurelius of showing what the mind can do in despite of circumstances. Most peaceful of warriors, a magnificent monarch whose ideal was quiet happiness in home life, bent to obscurity yet born to greatness, the loving father of children who died young or turned out hateful, his life was one paradox. That nothing might lack, it was in camp before the face of the enemy that he passed away and went to his own place.

I am your queen," the woman answered.

She might be that most unfortunate of women, a barren queen

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.

I am the King, after all.

Flush has grown an absolute monarch and barks one distracted when he wants a door opened. Robert spoils him, I think.

In his grand theory of the state published in 1651, titled Leviathan, Hobbes insisted that the transfer of a people's self-sovereignty to a monarch and king did indeed take place but it was a onetime transaction. Once it was complete, there was no going back, ever.

Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.

True courtesy," he continued, "earns the name. It is courtesy that is truthful. When the plebeian kneels to the monarch, he is offering his neck. He offers it because he knows his ruler can take it if he wishes. Common people like that say-or rather, they used to say, in older and better times—that I have no love of truth. But the truth is that it is precisely truth that I love, an open acknowledgment of fact.