Quotes About Monarchy

The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

I think you can't have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit and caboodle.

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.

Well, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we need to remember that.

A constitutional monarchy requires the monarch to be above politics but to be fully informed about politics.

I'm in favour of more democracy - let the British public decide what the future of the monarchy is and what shape it should be.

I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.

A lot of people would like to see the monarchy scaled down.

the former King Louis XVI, who, after titles were abolished, was now simply called Louis Capet - a mocking reference to his distant ancestor Hugh Capet, who had assumed the throne in the year 987.

There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life there's a deep respect for her role.

The Incas, although an authoritarian monarchy, had succeeded nevertheless during their short reign not only in creating a massive empire, but perhaps more importantly in guaranteeing all of the empire's millions of inhabitants the basic necessities of life: adequate food, water, and shelter. It was an achievement that no subsequent government -- Spanish or Peruvian -- has attained since

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

Bernice III was the first queen of Egypt to rule without a consort in over a millennium. Though her reign was brief, her example inspired her descendant Cleopatra to rule alone.

Bertrand Russell noted this in a famous article, writing emphatically that "The law of causality . . . is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

In the last century, when a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared: 'We are not amused'; and the whole British nation even now, a century later, is immensely proud of how rude their Queen was.

Jaehaerys the Conciliator would sit the Iron Throne for fifty-five years, and many a knight would wear a white cloak in his service during that long reign, more than any other monarch could boast. But it was rightly said that never did any Targaryen possess a Kingsguard who could equal the boy king's first Seven.

He bound the land together, and made of seven kingdoms, one.

One King means peace.

To Queen her is to kill her.

King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in water.