Monarchs Quotes · Page 2

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

— Herman Melville

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

— John Dryden

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

— Benjamin Franklin

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

— John Dryden

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

— Blaise Pascal

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

— Thomas Gray

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

— John Dryden

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

— Lord Acton

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

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his…

— Tony Benn

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea,…

— William Cowper

Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

I believe that many people have forgotten what their roots are. This is one of the advantages of countries with a monarchy.…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

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

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly,…

— William Blackstone

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and…

— Pat Buchanan

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

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of…

— Jeff Cooper

Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And make sure…

— Rob Brezsny

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

We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock…

— Cate Blanchett

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

Here in the United States, the Zionists and their co-religionists have complete control of our government. For many reasons, too many and…

— Benjamin H. Freedman

Tax time approaches, and Americans are as always paying H & R Block billions to help them save some of their wealth…

— Joseph Sobran

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

— Charles Churchill

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

— John Wilmot

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

— Thomas Paine

No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

— John Wolcot

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

— John Milton

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Horace

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

— Robert Hurt

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

— Alexander Pope

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

— Horace

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

— Pierre Corneille

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

— Simon Schama

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.

— Horace Walpole

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

— Horace Walpole