logo

Quotes About Royalty

Artists need to be valued. Many of our shows are re-run in other countries. In Hollywood, if a show is being re-run, artists are paid royalty.
~ Madhura Naik
Descended of royal lines older than Dascen Elur's archives, Arithon was the last living heir to the High Kingship of Rathain, a land divided in strife since the Mistwraith had drowned the sky.
~ Janny Wurts
Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince.
~ Janny Wurts
How had a royal son of s'Ffalenn come by the abuse so cruelly marked into youthful flesh? The sight was an offence. Dascen Elur must have changed drastically in the years since the Fellowship sealed the Worldsend Gate for the cause of Athera's drowned sunlight.
~ Janny Wurts
Miss Strange?" said the receptionist. "The King's Useless Brother has become bored and will see you early.
~ Jasper Fforde
Shall I kill him? said the princess after a pause. My father insisted that I be trained in the art of silent assassination just in case.
~ Jasper Fforde
Quién dijo aquello de: Un rey sin diversión es un hombre lleno de miserias?
~ Jean Giono
So the puppy (the future George III) won't be bewolfenbütteled, he says. I'll teach him whether to defy me. I say he shall be bewolfenbütteled, and like it! (George II on a proposal to marry his grandson to a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Jean Plaidy.)
~ Jean Plaidy
Imagine anyone asking Henry VIII or Elizabeth to settle a bill!
~ Jean Plaidy
A born king is a very rare being.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
~ Zara Phillips
The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.
~ Geena Davis
I told Prince Philip that, having met them both, I was struck, not by the differences between him and Charles, but by their similarities.
~ Gyles Brandreth
Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
~ Tariq Ali
I tend to be a bit of a proselytiser for the importance of royal courts, but all politics - in fact every form of human organisation, and this is something that's so dreadful for all those brought up in the 60s - naturally reverts to monarchy. Newspapers have editors, companies have chief executives.
~ David Starkey
There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them.
~ John Lithgow
To me, Jungle Kitty is a frame of mind where you don't apologize for who you are. You're very ferocious, you're a free spirit, you're outgoing. You don't conform to labels. It's really that side of me... she's so regal and she's so royal.
~ BeBe Zahara Benet
If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.
~ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
This gray little town fifty miles north of Paris acquired an outsized reputation for royal scandal, misbehavior, and debauchery, which in eighteenth-century France was saying something.
~ Tom Reiss
He narrowed his eyes to slits so that he could peer into the eyes of this shameless, strutting personage to whom, apparently, modesty was unknown. He took careful note of the fact that the king - "Lucy," the priest called him - was not glaring venomously. King Lucy was grinning, King Lucy was having a good time.
~ Tomson Highway
King Zello and his daughter
~ Tony Abbott
Good grief! They're going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn't even met Madge yet!" "Who's Madge?" Sticky asked. "Her Majesty the Queen!
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Smile in front of the queen?" she said with a feigned gasp of disapproval. 'Surely that's not allowed!
~ Unknown
On the other side of the queen, Turtle sat up, all his sleepiness gone. He looked much more worried and much less … puddle-like than usual. Queen
~ Tui T. Sutherland