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Quotes About Monarch

Queen Glory's royal pavilion
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I felt astonishment this system's folk put up with such a monarch. The attractions of kingship are well documented, but sentimental indulgence can become an illness if it isn't looked to.
~ David Brin
The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
~ William Shakespeare
And Caesar's spirit, raging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
~ William Shakespeare
His councillors caution, 'No haste, Majesty. As soon as you choose, you forfeit advantage. You can marry only once.' 'Can he?' Fitwilliam mutters. 'This is Henry we're talking about.
~ Hilary Mantel
The way I tell it, he says to Fitzwilliam, you would think that the blow on the head had improved him. That he actually set out to get it. That every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.
~ Hilary Mantel
Henry had sat up: 'I can do as it pleases me,' his monarch said. 'God would not allow my pleasure to be contrary to his design, nor my designs to be impeded by his will.' A shadow of cunning had crossed his face. 'And Gardiner himself said so.' Henry
~ Hilary Mantel
As there was a period between the anointing of David and the final banishment of Saul, in which Saul reigned as a usurper, though under Divine sentence and David was the God-appointed king: in like manner there is now a similar period in which Satan rules as a usurper, though under sentence; and the actual occupation of the throne by Christ is still future. In this period Satan, the rejected monarch, still rules; hunting to the death all those who have allied themselves with Christ,
~ Lewis Sperry Chafer
Yea, O my lord,"the monarch said, And took the vase upon his head, The gift of Gods, of fine gold wrought, With store of heavenly liquor fraught. He honoured, filled with transport new, That wondrous being, fair to
~ V?lm?ki
girls their mothers' nature share. So be not thou. For pity's sake Accept the word the monarch spake. Thy husband's will, O Queen, obey, And be the people's hope and stay, O, do not, urged by folly, draw The king to tread on duty's law.
~ V?lm?ki
When Queen Victoria became Britain's longest ruling monarch in September 1896, ousting George III, church bells rang throughout the country, and beacons blazed on hilltops.
~ Ingrid Seward
The rhyme obliges me to this; sometimes Monarchs are less imperative than rhymes)
~ Lord Byron
Bright is the diadem, boundless the sway, Or kingly the death, which awaits us to-day!
~ Lord Byron
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
~ Thomas Paine
Nature teaches me nothing about Incarnation or the Victorious Christian Life. It does, though, awaken my desire to meet whoever is responsible for the monarch butterfly.
~ Philip Yancey
The Monarch is the Big Bad to this one family of former adventurers, but we've always known there is a bureaucracy of villains that is a workman-like aspect to them.
~ Christopher McCulloch
One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad
~ Marissa Meyer, Heartless
Lafayette was in charge. He had championed the Assembly, saved Versailles from the mob, put down rebellions and returned the monarch to the people. He was greatly relieved the day had not gone worse.
~ Donald Miller
PETER THE GREAT.
~ Jacob Abbott
known among the people as the White Queen.
~ Jacob Abbott
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
~ John Dryden
He then raised the heavy gold crown above his head.
~ John Guy
ceremony was held at a time and place different from the king's coronation.
~ John Guy
Her son, Prince James
~ John Guy