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Monarchs Quotes & Sayings

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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. — John Dryden

I would parade you in the hall of the monarchs of the ocean if you could breathe water. — S.M. Wheeler

All things are subject to decay and change ... — Polybius

However, monarchs are literal Gods in your fantasy — Krista D. Ball

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers. — Thomas Hobbes

as is done by the newest historians, we shall have the history of monarchs and writers, but not the history of the life of the peoples. — Leo Tolstoy

Every man and woman is distinct from every other. But every mob is the same mob, whether composed of mineworkers or monarchs. — Daniel Polansky

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. — Elizabeth I

We were all very friendly but we were like 4 monarchs each doing their own thing. — Emily Dickinson

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. — Epicurus

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. — Horace Walpole

Like all diplomats, Walter hated it when monarchs talked directly to each other, instead of through their ministers. Anything could happen then. — Ken Follett

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,
From the hector of France to the cully of Britain. — John Wilmot

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. — Walter Scott

The gates of monarchs
Are arched so high that giants may jet through
And keep their impious turbans on without
Good morrow to the sun. — William Shakespeare

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them. — Herman Melville

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. — Baltasar Gracian

Ah, monarchs! could ye taste the mirth ye mar, Not in the toils of Glory would ye fret; The hoarse dull drum would sleep, and Man be happy yet. — George Gordon Byron

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch. — Simon Schama

Fear of change perplexes monarchs. — John Milton

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

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — John Milton

I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion. — William The Silent

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. — Walter Scott

Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends. — Horace

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs — Charlie Chaplin

Our English monarchs are so unimaginative," said Eldric. "They execute people in such tediously conventional ways. — Franny Billingsley