Quotes About Royalty
Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown.
~ William Shakespeare
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Our son shall win. QUEEN-He is fat and scant of breath. Here Hamlet, Wipe thy brow.
~ William Shakespeare
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Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back: Tells Harry that the King doth offer him Katherine his daughter; and with her to dowry some petty and unprofitable dukedoms: The offer likes not;
~ William Shakespeare
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Gracious Queen, even Herod of Judea wouldn't dare look at you unless you were in a good mood.
~ William Shakespeare
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The moral sense had grown so strong in matters of sex that Churchmen could now brand a king as licentious. Boniface from Germany censured Ethelbald for the "twofold sin" which he committed in nunneries by using the advantages of his royal position to gain himself favours otherwise beyond his reach.
~ Winston S. Churchill
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With the blood of a scoundrel and a princess in his veins, his defiance will shake the stars.
~ Chuck Wendig
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We are invited to drink the the king's health." To his good health or bad health? - Ash
~ Cinda Williams Chima
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Sometimes it seemed to Raisa that life at court was designed to keep a person from thinking too much about anything in particular.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
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El nuevo amanecer encontró a la princesa heredera; al despertar, estaba agotada, y completamente vacía de sueños.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
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The queen of the Fells is both the most powerful and the least free person in the entire queendom.She is a slave to duty once she comes of age.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
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Marry me, princess. I'll give you my kingdom—small potatoes that it is.
~ Cindy Gerard
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Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
~ Hilaire Belloc
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How many men can say, as I must, 'I am a man whose only friend is the King of England'? I have everything, you would think. And yet take Henry away, and I have nothing.
~ Hilary Mantel
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A decade of self-aggrandisement, since his daughter flashed her cunny at the king, has made Boleyn rich and settled and confident.
~ Hilary Mantel
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Suppose she denied him then but favored him some other time? Women are weak and easily conquered by flattery. Especially when men write verses to them, and there are some who sat that Wyatt writes better verses than me, though I am the King.
~ Hilary Mantel
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Even when she said her last words, asking the people to pray for the king, she was looking over the head of the crowd. Still, she did not let hope weaken her. Few women are so resolute at the last, and not many men.
~ Hilary Mantel
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We shall have to develop a hand signal for "Back off, our prince is fucking this man's daughter." He is surprised the Italians have not done it.
~ Hilary Mantel
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To his inner ear, the cardinal speaks. He says, I saw you, Crumb, when you were at Elvetham: scratching your balls in the dawn and wondering at the violence of the king's whims. If he wants a new wife, fix him one. I didn't, and I am dead.
~ Hilary Mantel
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To gentle pressure, King Henry capitulated; the White Rose, aged twenty-four, was taken out into God's light and air, in order to have his head cut off. But there is always another White Rose; the Plantagenets breed, though not unsupervised. There will always
~ Hilary Mantel
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They say she has all the gentlemen of the king's privy chamber, one after another. She don't like delay so they all stand in a line frigging their members, till she shouts, "Next.
~ Hilary Mantel
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But Turkish princes have a dozen wives each, ' Jane says. 'If the king had been of their sect, he could have been married to the late queen, God rest her, and Katherine, God rest her, and at the same time to me, if he liked. For that matter, he could have been married to Mary Boleyn, and to Mary Shelton, and to Fitzroy's mother. And the Pope could not have troubled him about it.
~ Hilary Mantel
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If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.
~ Hilary Mantel
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Rouge, also, had a peculiar function as caste-mark. It was applied with a heavy hand and in a circular pattern. It was worn most lavishly on the day of a woman's debut, when she was obliged to simulate the flush of the contrived orgasm bestowed by royal favour.
~ Hilary Mantel
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Harsh, yes . . . but the question is, have you picked your prince? Because that is what you do, you choose him, and you know what he is. And then, when you have chosen, you say yes to him—yes, that is possible, yes, that can be done. If you don't like Henry, you can go abroad and find another prince, but I tell you—if this were Italy, Katherine would be cold in her tomb.
~ Hilary Mantel
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