Quotes About Monarchy

I never liked the idea of the 'Royal Family' film. I always thought it was a rotten idea.

The royal family don't mean nothing.

I really love 'The Windsors' - and I hope the royal family love it, too.

short, as soon as the polis had lost the power to persuade people to commit to it fully with their highest ambitions and willingness to serve, a cosmopolitan market of theory and ethics arose in which a postpolitical intelligentsia reoriented itself to the ideological needs of the defeated, or one could also say, of private persons. The trend toward empire and monarchy was part of the times.

Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901) marked the transition from a monarch

Okres wiki?ski, który zapocz?tkowa? na Wyspach Brytyjskich przera?aj?co brutalny najazd, zako?czy? si? zastawem nie wykupionym przez skandynawskiego monarch?, który przekona? si?, ?e cen? nowoczesno?ci jest mi?dzy innymi niemo?no?? wyruszenia na wypraw? ?upiesk? dla zdobycia potrzebnej gotówki.

Such subjects are the very strength of kings, And are thus above the law.

I visited Libya in September 1996 for the 27th anniversary of the 'revolution' - a military coup that a 27-year-old Gadhafi led to topple the monarchy and since which he has ruled. Some were optimistic that Gadhafi's 'revolution' could herald a new Libya, but it didn't take long for his brutality to stamp out any such hopes.

It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

When you're the king of someplace, you don't voluntarily leave.

A man liberated from monarchical or hereditary limitations stood a greater chance of possessing a mind free to roam and to grow and to create and to innovate in a climate in which citizens lived together in essential harmony and affection.87 This was Jefferson's ideal republic—and he was

The age of Hittite supremacy belongs to an earlier date than the rise of the monarchy in Israel; earlier, we may even say, than the Israelitish conquest of Canaan.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion.

Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs.

from a time when there were at least four human species on Earth right up to the kings of Europe into the eighteenth century.

Neither Queen Anne nor her devoted and frequently drunk husband George was particularly good at socializing.

On a typical day, the King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, didn't leave his bedroom until around noon.

When Lascelles suggested to George VI that he give Hardinge six months' leave to reflect on his position, the king replied, "Certainly not—he might come back.")

I can only perceive the royal family as an entity historically. I think I know more about the royal family from the Plantagenets in the 14th Century than the modern family.

It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Queen Elizabeth I