Royal Quotes - Page 2

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer.

Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.

I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty!

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.

Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

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.

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

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!

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.

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.

Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

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.

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.

[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?