I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that? — William Klein Copy Share Image
I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the… — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist. — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
“...men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.” — Xenophon Copy Share Image
The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras. — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is… — Robert Lacey Copy Share Image
The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Dynamic, rapidly expanding European monarchy seeks a can-do visionary to head up its South American divisions.Our ideal candidate will have at least… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
The United States of America or the Western countries, they don't have a problem with Islamists as long as they are neoliberal… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Had I realized while on Earth," he said, "that Hell was such a delightful place, I should have put more faith in… — Frederic Arnold Kummer Copy Share Image
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born. — Ronald Syme Copy Share Image
The partial exception to our London-centric state institutions is the monarchy, which has always had peripatetic tendencies. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
The invention of the camera enabled the reinvention of the British monarchy for the modern era. — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
There is so much else in the world that is more interesting [ than monarchy]. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“value of monarchy as a conciliatory, if waning, force in European politics.” — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image