Royalty Quotes

I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]

Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues

Royalty is a fine burial shroud.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty!

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.

Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

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.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.

Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home?

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

I love everything I do and I can still remember the days of cashing my first royalty check for $2. I have such a great life, I'm proud of everything.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, 'it's mine.' But when it comes to contamination, cross-pollination, health problems, the response is we're not liable.

Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.