Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government…

Lord, have mercy on me, I was blind, now I can see. What a king's supposed to be, baby I feel free, come on…

— Jill Scott

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

— Walter Scott

“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 28/02/2012). Nos…

— Anonymous

These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to…

— Aristotle

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

— Ben Jonson

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— George Eliot

As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.

— William Habington

And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.

— William Shakespeare

“For kings indeed we have, who wear the marks and assume the titles of royalty, but as for the qualities of their minds, they…

— Plutarch

“You don't turn your back on your destiny.”

— Trine Villemann

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right…

— Walter Bagehot

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

— John Lanchester