He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse... — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that… — Homer Copy Share Image
As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Turn the anger of the Almighty against the godless Turks and Barbarians who despise Christ the Lord…In the royal city of the… — Pope Pius II Copy Share Image
We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And make sure… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
We, the monarchs, are undoubtedly constants in a constantly changing world. Because we have always been there, but also because we do… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch,… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone… — George VI Copy Share Image
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him. — Akbar Copy Share Image
“We were all very friendly but we were like 4 monarchs each doing their own thing.” — Emily Dickenson Copy Share Image
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends. — Horace Copy Share Image
Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image