Quotes About Royalty

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

Yeah, Mom, I'll just keep telling the prince that he has absolutely no shot with me and offend him as often as I can. Great plan.

Don't you think its quite weird for Prince Harry, getting really stoned and seeing your grans face appearing on your money.

Money like a queen gives rank and beauty .

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both?

No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.

I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day.

She is more Mother than Queen.

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world

I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!

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

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.

Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

The Uncommon Reader, a novella by Alan Bennett

I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

REGINA, REGINA PIGMEORUM, VENI Come Queen, Queen of the Pygmies

Let's not get so ecstatic we ignore the fiscal situation. As my agent so delicately pointed out, most novels--providing they get published--net the author about enough for a new typewriter ribbon and a quart of tequila in which to drown his sorrows when he receives his royalty statement. You will find precious few novelists listed in Dun and Bradstreet.

Shuja ud-Daula, son of the great Mughal Vizier Safdar Jung and his successor as Nawab of Avadh, was a giant of a man. Nearly seven feet tall, with oiled moustaches that projected from his face like a pair of outstretched eagle's wings, he was a man of immense physical strength.

The Queen is so poor she has to spend her own money.