Royalty Quotes · Page 8

I don't want to jeopardize my relationship with royalty by saying too much.

— Gyles Brandreth

“Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— King Edward VIII

“Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?”

— Jefferson Smith

Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

— Aristotle

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

— Hannah More

You might be a redneck if Exxon and Conoco have offered you royalties for your hair.

— Jeff Foxworthy

“We have to be more royal than royalty itself or nobody will believe us.”

— Philippa Gregory

The royalty any author gets is dependent on his track record and marketability and often on the price of his book, too.…

— Ravi Subramanian

“I’m relying on your innate nature now.” “I don’t under—” “A truce, peacemaker.” “With me?” “With Rhiannon.” Bram blinked. “Rhiannon who?” “Your…

— G.A. Aiken

When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to…

— Kerri Kasem

God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their…

— King James I

“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees Excerpt from To Kiss a King by…

— Grace Willows

My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. Id go wherever…

— Kate Walsh

I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me…

— Oscar Isaac

“But the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I…

— Philippa Gregory

Ability to download music for free might not be positive for the artists to get royalties, but in some ways it's still…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal…

— Michael Kosser

Ennio Morricone is royalty. He doesn't really do this a lot and Quentin brought him back [in Hateful Eight]. Quentin [Tarantino] basically…

— Bun B

The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and…

— Queen Victoria

What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean…

— Ishmael Reed

“Like Princes crowned they bore them-- Like Demi-Gods they wrought, When the New World lay before them In headlong fact and thought.…

— Rudyard Kipling

“The Prince shall think you the most beautiful lady he's ever seen." Alex replied wryly, "Let's hope that's not the case, Eliza.…

— Sarah MacLean

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

— Elliott Carter

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

— Philip Treacy

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

— Vine Deloria Jr

“He stood straight then, moving to stand directly in front of me as he dropped low and bowed dramatically. "Your Majesty.”

— Kimberly Derting

Unlike Prince William, you can be sure no one will marry you for fame, fortune, or royalty.

— Anonymous

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

— Bill Johnson

“I am a queen" she observes. "It is natural that men are going to gather round me, hoping for a smile.”

— Philippa Gregory

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

— Queen Elizabeth II

“Nature has placed you on the throne of royalty as the heir of all life that preceded you.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Martin Bashir

“I've plotted and schemed all my life. There is no other way to be a King, fifty and alive all at once.”

— James Goldman

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

— Queen Victoria

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

— Chris Patten

“The seal marks you out as royalty determines how you carry yourself”

— Ikechukwu Joseph

Specifically with respect to the Inhumans, they are almost a mythological creation in and of themselves - the way they work, the…

— Charles Soule

Every person at a record company didn't want to be bothered with me because I was too smart. They knew if I…

— L.C. Cooke