Royalty Quotes · Page 5

I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

— Charley Pride

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

— Homer

“Money should come from hard work and study, not marriage to emperors...”

— E.I. Thompson

“Of course, sir. Since royalty never, ever falls for a commoner. Your shaykhah is so very royal, after all.”

— Shayla Black

Getting to work with acting royalty like Andrew Scott and Moe Dunford for me is incredible.

— Nicholas Galitzine

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

— Ovid

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

— Stephen Hawking

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

— Joe Perry

“I’m relying on your innate nature now.” “I don’t under—” “A truce, peacemaker.” “With me?” “With Rhiannon.” Bram blinked. “Rhiannon who?” “Your…

— G.A. Aiken

God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their…

— King James I

When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to…

— Kerri Kasem

“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees Excerpt from To Kiss a King by…

— Grace Willows

I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me…

— Oscar Isaac

My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. Id go wherever…

— Kate Walsh

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better.…

— Christa B. Allen

I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second,…

— Aaron Watson

“This apartment, which you no doubt profanely suppose to be the shop of Will Wimble the undertaker --a man whom we know…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web,…

— Tim Berners-Lee

Today, a large part of Peru's revenues come from mining. Many big mining companies only pay income tax, but they extract minerals,…

— Ollanta Humala

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our…

— Angela Davis

How you treat the quiet, shy types is the most important. If you leave them to sit in a corner, they will…

— Geoffrey Zakarian

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines…

— F. Sionil Jose

“I have found good general guidelines are: be polite, be pleasant, be brief. When even that is too much to manage, pick…

— Megan Derr

I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds,…

— Helene Hanff

Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it…

— Michel de Montaigne

Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes

— Dean Cavanagh

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

— Michel de Montaigne

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

— Victor Hugo

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

— Cardinal Richelieu

Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

— Oliver Cromwell

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

— Gianni Versace

“As Royalty, indulgence in pleasurable experiences is 100% allowed and also encouraged”

— Rachel D. Greenwell

Just because you treat someone like royalty , doesn't mean they won't treat you like crap.

— Tyler Young

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

— Jimmy Breslin

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

— Marthe Bibesco

“You may attack royalty, or deny its will, but you must never, never ignore it”

— Emma Bull

Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

— I. L. Peretz

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

— George Will

“Standing before her king like the royalty she was. My queen of the dark”

— Tillie Cole