Friendly Quote by Emily Dickenson

“I think she is beautiful, but in a way that is not friendly, like in a way that just makes me want her to…

— Abraham M. Alghanem

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her…

— Tony Benn

Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe…

— Peter Padfield

ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way.

— Edward Kennedy

Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the…

— Ilana Mercer

An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour…

— Edward Gibbon

When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply distrusted by…

— John Rawls

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor…

— Edward Gibbon

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If…

— Eva Figes

Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually…

— David Cannadine