Monarch Quotes

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection.

With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling.

Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat;

instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

I have to be seen to be believed.

For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we strive daily to become better people. The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.

The world is not the most pleasant place.

Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.

[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.

The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.

I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown;

where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

Kuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

Love for Kuwait is always prior to self-love, money, and children.

. In the heart of every Kuwaiti, Kuwait's love grew it's seeds, spread its roots and branches all around our good land

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.

This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.

Think what we would have missed if we had never .

.. used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.

We start from Kuwait, and to Kuwait we end.

Anyone but that, is not from Kuwait, and Kuwait is not from them.

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical observation of the present century and assist, however humbly, the enlightened nations of the earth in these costly enterprises .

Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.

Kuwait is our haven which God has given us, the home he granted us.

. Kuwait is our origins and branches, security and resolution, protection and glory.. The past, present and future.

Kuwait is the origin which our roots extend in it's base.

The fort that we seek for shelter and stick to after God Almighty. Kuwait is the entity that maintains our presence that's united in it's features and divisions.

When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured.

The building of Kuwait and her Eminence, it's defense and protection, is primarily a responsibility by her people and the efforts of her children

Kuwait needs tougher guarding. Guarding that's not limited to weapons, soldiers and border control, but extends to every Kuwaiti soul with awareness, vigilance and anticipation

A king should die standing.

God and posterity will show me more favour

The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea;

the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.