Royalty Quotes - Page 7

• Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Government, Isle

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 1, sc. 3, l. [46]

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• I spoke at a woman's club in Philadelphia yesterday and a young lady said to me afterwards, "Well, that sounds very nice, but don't you think it is better to be the power behind the throne?" I answered that I had not had much experience with thrones, but a woman who has been on a throne, and who is now behind it, seems to prefer to be on the throne.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Nice, Thinking, Yesterday

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• That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

  Karl Kraus

  Cheating, Humility, Doe

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

  Geena Davis

  Family, Work, Reality

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• [King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.

  Horace Walpole

  Kings, Son, News

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• Sure am glad I'm not royalty," I muttered. "I wouldn't want to have to bump uglies with someone I can't stand. On a regular basis. And no one else." "Ow!" I exclaimed, trying to yank my fingers from Trent but finding them caught. Then I colored, realizing what I'd said. "Oh… sorry," I stammered, meaning it. "That was insensitive." Trent's frown turned into a sly smirk. "Bump uglies?" he said, eyes on the table behind me. "You are a font of gutter slang, Rachel. We must do this again.

  Kim Harrison

  Sorry, Eye, Trying

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• When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner.

  Stephen Colbert

  Important, Matter, Excited

  Twitter post from Apr 08, 2011

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• I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Kings, Queens

  "Anna Wintour to Letterman: 'I'm An Alien, Remember?'". people.com. August 25, 2009.

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• I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. ... When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. ... People have told me songs I've written have changed their life. That's remarkable. That keeps your faith.

  Joe Strummer

  Song, Growing Up, Rain

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• I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

  Joe Strummer

  Music, Rain, Income

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• A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.

  Willard Spiegelman

  Food, Water, Cooking

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• I gave birth to most of them MC's...
  So when it comes around to the month of May,
  Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day.

  Roxanne Shante

  Mother, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Have A Nice Day

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• Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.

  Walter Bagehot

  Strong, Heart, Government

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Monarchy'

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

  Benny Hinn

  Book, Debt, Ifs

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• 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.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Past, Mass

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

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Goal, Unconscious, Consuming

  Vine Deloria,Jr. (1971). “Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”

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• From a private gentlewoman you have made me first a marchioness, then a queen; and, as you can raise me no higher in the world, you are now sending me to be a saint in Heaven.

  Anne Boleyn

  Queens, Sarcasm, Heaven

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• People want an idol. They want royalty. They don't want a public servant. Hell no. They want someone to clap for and go, "Oh, he touched my hand at the rally!"

  Doug Stanhope

  Hands, Idols, People

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• I actually enjoy that I never really needed to be hanging out with every celebrity in Hollywood; I just go home and hang out with my cousins, my best friends. I'm not treated like royalty; they love me to death, but they don't treat me like royalty. So it's easy for me; they'll tell me the truth, whether it hurts or not. And I need that; I've always been given that.

  Queen Latifah

  Cousin, Hurt, Home

  Source: movieweb.com

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• If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Kings, Men, Design

  Oliver Cromwell (1970). “The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell: 1599-1649”

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• The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people.
  [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Mean, People, Palaces

  "Characters", VIII, 1688.

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• To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

  Hannah More

  Virtue, Manners, Treason

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• Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

  Katharine Anthony

  Greatness, Succeed, Kind

  Katharine Susan Anthony (1925). “Catherine the Great”

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

  Bette Midler

  Princess, Spite, Nature Love

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• I think he supersedes Peyton Manning but let's not throw Tom Brady in the category with Joe Montana, who was 4-for-4. He's royalty.

  Deion Sanders

  Thinking, Nfl, Montana

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