Royal Quotes - Page 4

The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.

When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, 'it's mine.' But when it comes to contamination, cross-pollination, health problems, the response is we're not liable.

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.

As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees.

To the royal guards of this realm, we are all victims in-waiting.

If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!

I would love to DJ the royal wedding. Just so I could play Candle in the Wind non-stop.

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

I hated the royal wedding.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

I'm not a royal family watcher.

My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.