Monarchy Quote by Tom Holland

“An elusive creature, the fabled coincidence.”

— Mike S. Elton

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

— Elizabeth I

By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four times in…

— Elsie Wayne

The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon a throne without limits, seems to have wished to…

— Marquis de Lafayette

It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that…

— Prince William

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

— Ezra Stiles

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

The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that…

— Mark Helprin

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

— Daniel Ellsberg

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

— Harold Wilson

“The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of…

— Alexander Hamilton