1.
In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
Gianni Versace
'In days gone by, those of noble birth were a given. Nowadays, greatness is earned.'
2.
There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love
Sathya Sai Baba
The solitary path to spiritual growth is affection.
3.
Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings.
Mary Slessor
4.
They are not royal.
They just happen to have me as their aunt.
Queen Elizabeth II
They don't have a noble lineage; I'm just their relative.
5.
Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated
Robert Greene
6.
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
Winston Churchill
8.
Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.
Euclid
9.
There's nothing so kingly as kindness,
And nothing so royal as truth.
Alice Cary
10.
I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.
Martin Short
11.
Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian.
Danila Kozlovsky
12.
All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are
Pharrell Williams
13.
It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.
Antisthenes
14.
I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer.
Prince Philip
16.
Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.
Frances Ridley Havergal
18.
Gwyneth Paltrow -- she always looks like she's about to cry. I wish someone would just kick her and get it over with. But I loved her in The Royal Tenenbaums.
Jinkx Monsoon
19.
The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.
Christopher Cockerell
20.
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!
Queen Noor of Jordan
22.
[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!
Anne, Princess Royal
23.
Winning the Royal Rumble is as big an accomplishment as anything.
John Cena
24.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Igor Stravinsky
25.
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
Larry King
26.
The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.
Steven Morrissey
27.
I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.
Helen Mirren
29.
The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.
Edwin Arnold
30.
Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.
Johannes Brahms
31.
Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.
Julian Schwinger
32.
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
Alastair Campbell
33.
A woman's rank
Lies in the fulness of her womanhood:
Therein alone she is royal.
George Eliot
34.
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
Stephen Fry
35.
Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
James Buchan
36.
The presence of a king engenders love
Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.
William Shakespeare
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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
40.
I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!
Fats Waller
42.
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
43.
If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.
Robin Ince
44.
To the royal guards of this realm, we are all victims in-waiting.
Cheshire Cat
47.
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
Paul Getty
48.
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
Paul Weller
49.
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
Saint Francis de Sales
50.
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.
Bill Bryson