Royal Quotes - Page 17

• There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course.

  Meg Cabot

  Guy, British, Members

  Twitter post from May 14, 2014

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• This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England
  This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
  . . .
  This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Land, Nurse

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

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• Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

  Julie Burchill

  Country, Would Be, Lack Of Love

  "Once we had anarchy in the UK. Now all we have is monarchy in the UK" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.

  Anthony Trollope

  Pride, Names, Letters

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Can You Forgive Her? (Unabridged): Victorian Classic from the prolific English novelist, known for Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Palliser Novels, The Prime Minister, The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne and Phineas Finn…”, p.339, e-artnow

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• Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of dynastic marriage, the family tree of every royal house is an ethnic grab bag with something for everybody. We need this badly; America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. We can't go on much longer depending upon disasters like Pearl Harbor and the Iranian hostage-taking to "bring us together.

  Florence King

  Country, Home, Government

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.125, Macmillan

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• People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.

  John Lydon

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

  Elton John

  Half, Want, Littles

  Interview With Paul Gambaccini, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 1973.

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• As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.

  Philip Neri

  Opposites, Vests, Virtue

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.47, St Athanasius Press

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• When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.

  Hilary Mantel

  Blue, Order, People

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• If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Suffering, Clay

  William Jennings Bryan (1968). “The Credo of the Commoner”

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• The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced Connor), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and husband of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews.

  Thomas Cahill

  Kings, Husband, Father

  Thomas Cahill (2011). “How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also spent his time in public service, not in jail, and his passing was marked by world-wide encomiums. He ended his days as a celebrated explorer rather than a royal inconvenience.

  Seth Shostak

  Jail, World, Columbus

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• No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ancient Literature, Style, Example

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

  Charlie Munger

  Shells, Dutch, Problem

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• It is outrageous that the Queen has invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee.

  Peter Tatchell

  Queens, Diamond Jubilee, Tyrants

  "Guess who's coming to dinner? Anger over Queen's jubilee bash guest list" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this book I did a lot of fun research on robber barons like Rockefeller and Morgan. But the most helpful stuff came from studying royal families and mad emperors. The best book I read was probably A King’s Own Story, which is the memoir of Edward VIII. Also, anything about Ivan the Terrible or Ted Turner.

  Simon Rich

  Kings, Fun, Crazy

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• Westlemania is the Superbowl but each PPV is equally important. The big four (WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, SummerSlam and Survivor Series) are always important to me but the themed events have been getting better each year. Each event has its own aura around it so it's very difficult to choose.

  John Cena

  Years, Get Better, Important

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• Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Skeletons, Dancing, Funeral

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2445, Delphi Classics

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• All failed lovers rewrite the script, as if one sexual detail or another might have tipped the balance of pain into destiny, either tragic or miraculous. History record the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Pain, Destiny, Names

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• Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

  Chanakya

  Men, Rivers, Weapons

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• If you ask me why I've succeeded it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

  Brian McDermott

  Adversity, Marine, Achievement

  "Brian McDermott, the marine who became a world-beater with Leeds". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

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• Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

  Rod Stewart

  Government, Glee, Accepted

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• Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

  Francis Bacon

  Forever, Spiders, Amber

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the philosophical works”, p.320

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• Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that have a certain amount of privilege. They have gifts, they have history, they have a sort of unusual and separate position, which maybe involves paying a price.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Two, Royal Wedding, People

  "Actor-director Kenneth Branagh". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2011.

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• The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

  Julius Lester

  Imagination, Literature, Modern

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