Family Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“The nobility of the kingdom grieved at being reduced to such ruin by the supine simplicity of one man,”

— Dan Jones

“This short history should have something to satisfy every taste and perversion: action, treachery, fratricide and regicide, corruption, and bloodshed. It contains thirteen murders,…

— R.A. Lafferty

“When these with violence were burned to death, We wished for our Elizabeth.”

— Alison Weir

“He condemned monarchy itself as a system which had laid the world "in blood and ashes.”

— Charles A. Beard

“... being assassinated is natural causes for a king.”

— Terry Pratchett

“For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some…

— William Shakespeare

“When unjust laws are duly weighed, The king, too, may be disobeyed. They owed their true prince everything.”

— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasm or a hideous dream. The genius…

— William Shakespeare

“He who hate royality, does not belong to royal family.”

— Hamzat haruna Ribah

“Some kings of England could not read or write; some died of illness which would keep us in bed only for a week or…

— P.J. Sidey

“No killing intention in a society of eternity.”

— Toba Beta

What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million…

— Helen Keller