Royalty Quotes - Page 2

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home?

Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

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

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

I love everything I do and I can still remember the days of cashing my first royalty check for $2. I have such a great life, I'm proud of everything.

I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

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.

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

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

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

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.