Royal Quotes - Page 11

• I've been dreaming of a time when
  The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories
  And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him
  And will salute him forever.

  Steven Morrissey

  Dream, Names, Sick

  "Song: 'Irish Blood, English Heart'". 2004.

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• If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.

  John Lydon

  Long, Ifs, Long Time

  Panel TV show "The Belzer Connection", 2003.

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• How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.

  Warren Farrell

  Home, Royal Wedding, Circles

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.

  John Constable

  Mother, Light, Essence

  "Constable". Book by Conal Shields, p. 288. Letter to Rev. John Fisher (1824), 1993.

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• I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.

  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

  Photography, Art, College

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• This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.

  Asa Gray

  Science, Views, Essentials

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

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• I hated the royal wedding.

  Steven Morrissey

  Wedding, Royal Wedding, Hated

  "How Morrissey fell for the Stephen Colbert effect" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Children, Eye

  C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

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• This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Precious Stones, Paradise On Earth

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Work, Past, Track

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• Success is not to be gained by a blind and slavish following of anyone's rules or advice, our own any more than any other person's. There is no royal road to success- no patent process by which the unsuccessful are to be magically transformed. . . . Rules and advice may greatly assist-and they undoubtedly do this-but the real work must be accomplished by the individual. He or she must carve out his or her own destiny.

  William Walker Atkinson

  Success, Real, Destiny

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• Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you never know all the side effects. I look at the pharmaceutical companies as the drug barons, the psychopharmcologists as the mules and the patients as the victims. They're innocent because they think they're being cured.

  Robert Evans

  Believe, Thinking, Two

  "Robert Evans: 'Any man who says he can read a woman's thoughts is a man who knows nothing'". Interview With Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002.

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• He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

  Alain de Botton

  Believe, Eye, Intelligent

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• Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes, crimson breasts that beat against bars, wings that flapped against their neighbours, blood red, royal blue, gypsy yellow, grass green. The birds were crammed along perches. Macaws hung upside down here and there, batting their white eyes, and small green parrots flittered above our heads in drifts. A hot of cockatoos looked down from on high over the shrill madness, high crested, creamy breasted. The screeching was like laughter in hell.

  Carol Birch

  Laughter, Eye, Yellow

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• By this time, half the people in High Norland were gathered in Royal Square to stare at the castle. They all watched with disbelief as the castle rose slightly into the air and glided toward the road that led southward. It was hardly more than an alley, really. "It'll never fit!" people said. But the castle somehow squeezed itself narrow enough to drift away along it and out of sight. The citizens of High Norland gave it a cheer as it went.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Cheer, Squares, Sight

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• Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?

  Katie Hopkins

  Independent, Ebola, London

  "Katie Hopkins' Ebola tweets investigated by police". www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2014.

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• I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

  Paul Bettany

  Fascination, Doe, Paper

  "Bowing Down To Paul Bettany". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. December 24, 2009.

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• Kindred’s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely—and demonically—inspired.

  Alethea Kontis

  Heaven, Legends, Inspired

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• A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had.

  J. Christopher Herold

  Princess, Heart, Men

  J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate with difficulty-He wore the costume of our grandfathers. Was enormously rich but made no use of his wealth... He Cavendish lived latterly the life of a solitary, came to the Club dinner & to the Royal Society: but received nobody at his home. He was acute sagacious & profound & I think the most accomplished British Philosopher of his time.

  Humphry Davy

  Home, Men, Thinking

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• This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes, instead of Refracting ones, hath thereupon presented the curious world with an Essay of what may be performed by such Telescopes; by which it is found, that Telescopical Tubes may be considerably shortened without prejudice to their magnifiying effect. On his invention of the catadioptrical telescope, as he communicated to the Royal Society.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Thinking, World

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• The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human gazes Toward the newly Born: The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The strange sweet angel-tongue: The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to hold: So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state. Sleep, sleep, my kingly One!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Baby, Stars

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• Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.

  John Amery

  Air, Three, Arms

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• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  Wally Schirra

  Dad, Airplane, Hands

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• If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal?

  Runoko Rashidi

  Queens, Believe, Black

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