Monarch Quotes
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Monarch Quotes & Sayings
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
— Kate Williams
Caution is a fine and worthy thing in any monarch, but a truly great ruler must also know when to take risks.
— Alex Rutherford
One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.
— Walter Wriston
I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
— Rachel Platten
His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse ...
— William Shakespeare
No monarch placed more emphasis on the veneration of the king's body than...Louis XIV.
— Jennifer Homans
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
— John Dryden
To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
— Thomas Hobbes
A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.
— Thomas Paine
And now the King is dead. Who knows who will replace him? Voting for a monarch! Have you ever heard of such a thing?
— Joe Abercrombie
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
— Oscar Wilde
When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour.
— Kate Williams
Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert
— Sophocles
I sit here like a monarch on his throne I've got my sceptre, but no crown to call my own
-Mephistopheles — Johann Wolfgang Von Geothe
I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.
— Friedrich Schiller
Sin is the monarch that rules the heart of every man. It is the first lord of the soul, and its virus has contaminated every living being.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
— Benjamin Franklin
Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire ... is one Monarch and one Sword.
— Carlos Fuentes
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
— Thomas Paine
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.
— Horace Walpole
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
— Charles Churchill
I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.
— Emily Dickinson
She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.
— Prince Andrew
All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,From the hector of France to the cully of Britain. — John Wilmot
Our struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown. Although it often seems that way.
— Edward Kennedy
Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.
— Kirsty Gallacher
Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.
— Oprah Winfrey
Every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.
— Hilary Mantel
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
— Mason Cooley
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it - it keeps him upright.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.
— Bias Of Priene
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. — John Dryden
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
— Pierre Corneille
One child is never enough for a monarch.
— Kate Williams
Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.
— Blaise Pascal
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.
— Jessica Mitford
Butterflies ... flowers that fly and all but sing.
— Robert Frost
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch on his throne.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
— Charlie Chaplin
Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
— Margaret Thatcher
Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".
— Peter Heather
I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.
— Gore Vidal
No, let the monarch's bags and others holdThe flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.
— John Wolcot
One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.
— Marissa Meyer
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
— Pierre Corneille
When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.
— Thomas Gray
I crown you, small monarch of my bones,
— Pablo Neruda
It's against etiquette to yawn in the presence of a King, - the monarch told him.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery