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Royal Quotes - Page 3

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.

1782 Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez'.

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

Christina (Queen of Sweden) (1753). “The Works of Christina Queen of Sweden: Containing Maxims and Sentences in Twelve Centuries, and Reflections on the Life and Actions of Alexander the Great”, p.98

Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.332

The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

Sir Edwin Arnold (1856). “Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems”, p.235

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1916). “Nothing Matters, and Other Stories”

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

Vine Deloria,Jr. (1971). “Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

"The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2001.