Monarchy Quotes

Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.

— Paul Kagame

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

— Garry Kasparov

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

— Walter Scott

I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.

— Pierre Corneille

We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

— Seneca the Younger

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

— Elizabeth I

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

— Thomas Paine

I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set.

— Hilary Mantel

“The monarchy continued this tradition, and it migrated to America as soon as there was profit to be had.”

— Andrew P. Napolitano

It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.

— Pierre Corneille

If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the…

— Jan Smuts

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— George Eliot

The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of…

— Benjamin Whichcote

You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get…

— Anthony Holden

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

— Tom Hooper

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute…

— Jane Porter

My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the…

— Basmah bint Saud

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him…

— Herodotus

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts…

— Salvador Dali

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles…

— Anonymous

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible…

— Lytton Strachey

Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even…

— Terry Pratchett

The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by…

— Edward Gibbon

Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those…

— Edward Gibbon

It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that…

— Thomas Paine

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

— David Cannadine

I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of…

— William Rees-Mogg

There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder…

— CS Lewis

“It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty…

— Mark Twain

“The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the…

— Karl Marx

“The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like…

— Terry Pratchett

Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were…

— David Cannadine

“It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book On God ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of…

— James Monroe

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an…

— Francis Bacon