Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch
"They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt."
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Royal
119 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious."
Pharrell Williams
Musician, Producer
"All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are"
Prince Philip
Royalty
"I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer."
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"Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious."
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"I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!"
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"The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business."
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"The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag."
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"There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick."
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"A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal."
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"The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends."
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"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."
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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]."
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"There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!"
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"I hated the royal wedding."
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"The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble."
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"The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]"
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"Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit."
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"I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me."
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"Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue."
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"There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition)."
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"Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar."
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"The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society."
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"I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness."
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