Monarchy Quotes · Page 12

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

— Marilyn Ferguson

We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country that’s out of kings.”

— Mark Twain

I think the monarchy today is. . . mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In…

— Hilary Mantel

The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into…

— James Fitzjames Stephen

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

— Tom Hooper

The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the…

— Maxim Gorky

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

— David Hume

Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New…

— Craig Ferguson

To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is…

— Vladimir Lenin

The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit…

— Edward Gibbon

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

— Alexander Hamilton

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

— Sting

“Around thrones the thunder rolls.”

— C.J. Sansom

I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which…

— Robert Benchley

“[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one.”

— Plutarch

There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not…

— David Cannadine

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

What is striking is how the reputation of the monarchy has gone up and down in my lifetime.

— David Starkey

It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic…

— Fisher Ames

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

— Edward Gibbon

Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to…

— Farah Diba

Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the…

— Henry Anatole Grunwald