Monarchs Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch… — Julie Burchill
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in… — Walter Scott
They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it… — Ray Bradbury
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — John Milton
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and… — John Roberts
Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only… — Adam Gopnik
We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend… — Pat Buchanan
All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily… — Herman Melville
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. — Baltasar Gracian
We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount… — Stacy Schiff
Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly… — Roy Chapman Andrews
Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring… — William Shakespeare
When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity… — Napoleon Bonaparte
But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible… — Rachel Carson
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. — John Dryden
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. — Elizabeth I
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. — Epicurus
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. — Horace Walpole
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind,… — Mary Wollstonecraft
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to… — William Shakespeare

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