Louis XIV
King
"I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]"
Royalty quotes
Royalty
71 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Bill Johnson
Athlete
"Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source."
Prince Charles
Royalty
"All the time I feel I must justify my existence."
George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men."
Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch
"[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors."
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"Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free."
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"The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king."
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"Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them."
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"Many a crown Covers bald foreheads."
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"Call me Diana, not Princess Diana."
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"There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God."
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"I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]."
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"It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]"
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"The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth."
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"The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me."
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"From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more."
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"Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation."
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"I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out."
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"Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?"
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"I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world."
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