I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings about the Royal Family. I am… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I like purple too. I looked up color psychology before doing any house painting, because I was curious what the colors I… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they… — Andrew Morton Copy Share Image
By this time, half the people in High Norland were gathered in Royal Square to stare at the castle. They all watched… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!!… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't… — Josh Earnest Copy Share Image
My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
If you're the King of Jordan, if you're a part of the royal family in Saudi Arabia and he's made this deal… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
I'll buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or I'll find an old busted sweatshirt, tear… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
Who can assure us that we will be alive tomorrow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
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