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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Walter Bagehot

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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

James Fenimore Cooper

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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Mark Twain

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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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5

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

Thomas Hardy

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6

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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7

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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8

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

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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.

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

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I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.

Leonard Cohen

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I'd like to be queen of people's hearts.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

George Will

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13

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

Ovid

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Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.

Desiderius Erasmus

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15

Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.

Michel de Montaigne

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16

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Walter Bagehot

Royalty
17

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Walter Bagehot

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18

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Northrop Frye

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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

Walter Bagehot

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20

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Oscar Wilde

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21

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

William Shakespeare

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22

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

George Bernard Shaw

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We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.

Mary Kay Ash

Royalty

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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

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.

I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.

I'd like to be queen of people's hearts.

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.