Royalty Quotes · Page 7

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become…

— Stanley Kubrick

“Love? Royalty doesn't have the luxury of love! Didn't your mothers teach you that?”

— Rowena Cory Daniells

The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids.

— LZ Granderson

“You boys may be gentlemen," Dusty said. "But I'm about to shoot like a lady. You ready, baby?”

— Stephanie Kate Strohm

“Men only treat women like princesses when they want to use them like prostitutes.”

— Bauvard

With all its glamour, drama and of course the royalty, there is nothing quite like Royal Ascot.

— Gok Wan

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

— Frank Ocean

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is…

— Annie Oakley

Angels, demons, sex. Heaven, hell, war. Blood and royalty, history and magic, fire and ice. And a story you cannot put down.…

— Stephen Graham Jones

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

All the new songs have been written since the re-issue of Diamond Day. With my first royalties I got a Mac and…

— Vashti Bunyan

When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, 'it's mine.' But when it comes to contamination,…

— Vandana Shiva

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created…

— Robert H. Schuller

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got…

— Elton John

“Mari's original plan to have the Queen play coy with the King was, she now realized, woefully inadequate—a milkmaid's game, played against…

— Dawn Patitucci

“Historians of the sentimental school have sometimes regretted that royalty became absolute, while at the same time rejoicing that it installed plebeians…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“I want to introduce the world to my princess.’ In a state of disbelief, Izzy took his hand and they walked back…

— Sarah Morgan

Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's…

— Desiderius Erasmus

Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving…

— Mark Riebling

“To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that…

— Robert K. Massie

“Appartenir à une patrie, c'est aussi s'engager pour le siècle où l'on y vit (source: émission sur la Russie sur Arte le…

— Anonymous

As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and…

— Lord Chesterfield

A native American group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the government for mismanagement of oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties…

— Stephen Colbert

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

— Kit Harington

The Georgians will treat you like royalty, and the odds are you'll do a lot of eating, drinking and toasting.

— Katie Melua

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get…

— Geena Davis

“Oh my God. I love rich people. And royalty are the best because they’re rich people who can’t be fires.”

— Paul Rudnick

I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.

— Johnny Carson

Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

— Bette Midler

France has always fascinated me. It is a country that boasts of rich culture, heritage and of course, royalty.

— Shakti Mohan

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

— Grace Kelly

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

— Horace

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

— Tony Evans

Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!

— Robert Burns

Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

— William Shakespeare

“Today’s middle class lives better than did the Royalty of not so long ago, and yet humans today don’t seem very happy.”

— Russ Harris

Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew, How pure amang the leaves sae green!

— Robert Burns

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

— Ba Jin