Quotes About Monarchy

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

If tough old Lefty Helen Mirren can warm towards the Crown after impersonating Her Majesty, who's next? Since reigning and acting have so much in common, it's surprising all actors aren't fervent royalists.

Ip Man was an extraordinary man who lived during extraordinary times. He was born to a rich family when the country was still a monarchy and lived through various civil wars, revolutions, the Japanese invasion, and the establishment of the Republic.

plain, once ruled by a single monarch, was now split between

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

Prince Charles is so funny. So, so funny.

Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.

I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings about the Royal Family. I am a supporter. I'm not someone who thinks we should get rid of them. But what I've struggled with is the lack of emotionality that the Queen seems to share.

The King and Queen hid in a secret cupboard in their bedroom for two hours, listening to the searchers grow cold, then warm, then cold again, then warm, and at last hot, and burning hot. The weakly King was hard to kill: when they threw him from the balcony they thought him doubly dead from bullet wounds and sword slashes, but the fingers of his right hand clasped the railing and had to be cut off before he fell to the ground, where the fingers of his left hand clutched the grass.

Why do you think this great nation of ours loves the Royal Family? Gun Law. If we didn't have it, you'd be asking the opposite question.

Republicanism was not what Empress Dowager Cixi had hoped for, but it was what she would accept, as it shared the same goal as her wished-for parliamentary monarchy that the future of China belong to the Chinese people.

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

Ale dnes svatozáÃ…â"¢ kolem hlav stát? zmizela. Jsou to lidé a jsou odpovÄ›dni za své ?iny. Od té doby, co evropské národy za?aly stavÄ›t své monarchy pÃ…â"¢ed soud a stínat jim hlavy, je úkolem národ? kontrolovat své v?dce. Státní akty jsou zárove? osobní akty. Odpovídají za nÄ› lidé jako jednotlivci.

The Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent.

noblesse parlementaire par cinq départements qui avaient groupé leurs vois sur son nom. Ainsi, la Montagne paraissait, le 29 mai 1849, étant donné les conflits inévitables entre les différentes fractions monarchistes et entre l'ensemble du parti de l'ordre et Bonaparte, avoir pour elle tous les éléments de succès. Quinze jours plus tard, elle avait tout perdu, y compris l'honneur.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.