Royal Quotes - Page 7

• Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.

  Julie Andrews

  Girl, Growing Up, Princess

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Zoos, Animal, Idiot

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.

  Alicia Vikander

  Queens, Nuance, Different

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• My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.

  St. Vincent

  Dad, Kids, Car

  "St Vincent: soundtrack of my life". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• The keeper of the keys was one of the most important roles a household servant could hold (Mark 13:32-34). A higher official held the keys in a royal kingdom (Is 22:22) and in God's house, the temple.

  Craig S. Keener

  Keys, House, Important

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• We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Cutting, Dark, Destiny

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.506, Penguin

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• Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.

  Sophie Thompson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Theatre

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• Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count the miles." As I said, the virtues are at the midpoint between excess and laxness. That is why it is written, "Do not turn to the right or the left" (Prov 4:27) but travel on the "royal way" (Num. 20:17). Saint Basil also says, "The person who does not allow his thoughts to incline towards excess or deprivation but directs it to the midpoint, that of virtue, is upright in heart."

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Truth, Heart, Way

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• When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.

  Caroline Rhea

  Pain, People, Funk

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• Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

  George Brett

  Winning, Yankees, Years

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• Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Ambition, People, Exhibitions

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.86

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• I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

  Ken Livingstone

  Family, Long, Lamps

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• I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Regret, Years, Training

  "Charlotte Rampling (I)". Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2001.

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• I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.

  Robert Byron

  Simple, Water, Cost

  Robert Byron (2016). “The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded”, p.41, MarcoPolo

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• When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's going to happen next, the horse is just about the only one who doesn't know I am Royal!

  Anne, Princess Royal

  Horse, Fall, Water

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• Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Giving, Age, Taste

  Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1859). “An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography”, p.165

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• I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

  Taliesin

  World, Sovereign, Praise

  Taliesin, “The Spoils Of Annwfn”

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• Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

  Laura Schlessinger

  Pain, Women, Parent

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• Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.

  Randeep Hooda

  Sports, Names, People

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• Ill buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or Ill find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.

  Theophilus London

  Couple, Zippers, Tears

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• The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.

  William Hazlitt

  Sports, Strong, Justice

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”

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• If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

  Europe, House, Looks

  "Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: Jaime isn’t a psychopath. He’s a realist". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 13, 2011.

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• If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Kings, People, Looks

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• The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.

  Trevor Nunn

  Theater, Wanted, Saved

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• I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Appreciation, Opportunity, Years

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