Royal famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
-- Alastair Campbell -
The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.
-- Alastair Campbell -
Kindred’s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely—and demonically—inspired.
-- Alethea Kontis -
There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.
-- Alice Cary -
In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.
-- Alicia Vikander -
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.
-- Ananda Coomaraswamy -
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
-- Anthony Trollope -
It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.
-- Antisthenes -
When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.
-- Arthur Bryant -
It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall.
-- Billy Joe Saunders -
I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.
-- Carole King -
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Caroline Rhea -
Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones,
-- Cassandra Clare -
His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.
-- Charles XII of Sweden -
Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco.
-- Cornelis Bontekoe -
Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian.
-- Danila Kozlovsky -
I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.
-- Deborah Bull -
Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.
-- Des Hanafin -
Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count the miles." As I said, the virtues are at the midpoint between excess and laxness. That is why it is written, "Do not turn to the right or the left" (Prov 4:27) but travel on the "royal way" (Num. 20:17). Saint Basil also says, "The person who does not allow his thoughts to incline towards excess or deprivation but directs it to the midpoint, that of virtue, is upright in heart."
-- Dorotheus of Gaza -
The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.
-- Edwin Arnold -
The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.
-- Eric Temple Bell -
And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.
-- Evelyn Glennie -
Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.
-- Frances Ridley Havergal -
Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers. I mention this solely to remind you that linguists are not kidding when they say … that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.
-- Geoffrey K. Pullum -
A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.
-- George Eliot -
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
-- Gianni Versace -
No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch.
-- Herbert Wind -
I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau -
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
-- James Buchan -
Gwyneth Paltrow -- she always looks like she's about to cry. I wish someone would just kick her and get it over with. But I loved her in The Royal Tenenbaums.
-- Jinkx Monsoon -
Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.
-- Johannes Brahms -
What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family...
-- John Boorman -
Winning the Royal Rumble is as big an accomplishment as anything.
-- John Cena -
In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
-- John E. Walker -
If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.
-- John Lydon -
The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
-- Jonathan Sacks -
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).
-- Karl Marx -
The royal hound's belly demands rubbing. Step lively, humans, neglect me not." ~Oberon
-- Kevin Hearne -
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
-- Larry King -
Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
-- Learned Hand -
There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very open, human, and kind, and this is what I have tried to capture in the pictures I have taken of them as well as in my pictures of Prince William and Catherine.
-- Mario Testino -
I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.
-- Martin Short -
Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings.
-- Mary Slessor -
On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.
-- Matthew of Edessa -
If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.
-- Max Hastings -
There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course.
-- Meg Cabot -
A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.
-- Michael Foot -
In the spirit of the Irish people, Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish ass!
-- Mike Moran -
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.
-- Osama bin Laden -
I still read the British papers, but I've never been a Royalist, ever. It's funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.
-- Paul Bettany -
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
-- Paul Getty -
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
-- Paul Weller -
Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid?an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at thetop, and? It isinvisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, asgood a material as any tobuild a life from.
-- Peter Carey -
The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.
-- Prince Andrew -
They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
-- Queen Elizabeth II -
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
-- Robert Ballard -
When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know certainly, restores Fragmentation into true being. Ecstasy of Chaos
-- Robert Graves -
Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated
-- Robert Greene -
If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.
-- Robin Ince -
I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.
-- Rupert Sheldrake -
Royal titles ceased to be recognised by the Indian government in 1971. The title of Nawab and Maharaja are not recognised by the Indian government anymore.
-- Saif Ali Khan -
There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love
-- Sathya Sai Baba -
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
-- Sigmund Freud -
Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.
-- Simon Van Booy -
There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason . . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.
-- Steven Morrissey -
I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
-- Taliesin -
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
-- Trevor Nunn -
Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.
-- Trish Stratus -
My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena.
-- Victoria Wood -
With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.
-- Will Ferguson -
To the royal guards of this realm, we are all victims in-waiting.
-- Cheshire Cat -
Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.
-- Ferdinand Lundberg -
My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence each other.
-- Marcel Dzama -
The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.
-- Marthe Bibesco -
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. -
[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!
-- Anne, Princess Royal -
I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium.
-- Bert Blyleven -
The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.
-- Christopher Cockerell -
I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!
-- Queen Noor of Jordan -
Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.
-- Felix Klein
