Royalty Quotes

List of top sayings and quotations by famous royaltys like Queen Victoria, Prince Charles and Prince Philip


  • When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

    — Prince Philip
    608
  • Grief is the price we pay for love.

    — Elizabeth II
    319
  • Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

    — Queen Victoria
    235
  • If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

    — Marie Antoinette
    226
  • I was a queen, and you took away my crown;

    a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

    — Marie Antoinette
    222
  • I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]

    — Louis XIV
    218
  •  image quote by Princess Diana

    Only do what your heart tells you.

    — Princess Diana
    36
  • As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions;

    to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.

    — Prince Charles
    210
  • Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future.

    — Prince Charles
    208
  • If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

    — Augustus
    200
  • I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

    — Augustus
    197
  • We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

    — Queen Victoria
    197
  • I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil.

    We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

    — Queen Victoria
    181
  •  image quote by Princess Diana

    Carry out a randon act of kindness, with no expectations of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

    — Princess Diana
    36
  • Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

    — Queen Victoria
    179
  • The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.

    — George III
    170
  • At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order.

    — Augustus
    170
  • We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

    — Augustus
    169
  • Related Authors

    • Queen Victoria
    • Prince Charles
    • Prince Philip
    • Augustus
    • Frederick the Great
    • Marie Antoinette
    • Louis XIV
    • Elizabeth I
    • George III
    • Princess Diana
    • Elizabeth II
    • Duke of Wellington
    • Catherine the Great
    • King James I
    • Prince William
    • Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
    • Wallis Simpson
    • Anne Boleyn
    • King Solomon
    • Cleopatra
    • King George III
    • Charles V
    • Frederick II
    • Princess Margaret
    • Mary Queen Of Scots
    • King Edward VIII
    • Henry Bolingbroke
    • Norodom Sihanouk
    • Jane Grey
    • King George V
    • King Hussein
    • Marguerite de Valois
    • Marie Louise
    • Nicholas II
    • Queen Mary
  • Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.

    — George III
    168
  • First feelings are always the most natural.

    — Louis XIV
    166
  •  image quote by King Solomon

    Your own soul is nourished when you are kind, it is destroyed when you are cruel

    — King Solomon
    27
  • Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

    — Queen Victoria
    163
  • I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.

    — King George III
    162
  • In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.

    — Louis XIV
    161
  • I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.

    — George III
    160
  • We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

    — Queen Victoria
    159
  • it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.

    — Marie Antoinette
    155
  •  image quote by Princess Diana

    If you find someone you love in you life, then hang on to that love.

    — Princess Diana
    8
  • Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

    — Queen Victoria
    153
  • Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

    — Elizabeth I
    151
  • Only small minds want always to be right.

    — Louis XIV
    150
  • We had a beautiful dream and that was all.

    The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I could achieve by being free of this place I cannot consent to separate my self from him. I could not have any pleasure in the world if I abandoned my children. I do not even have any regrets.

    — Marie Antoinette
    149
  • There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

    — Louis XIV
    149
  • Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

    — Frederick the Great
    146
  • Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

    — Queen Victoria
    145
  • The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

    — Louis XIV
    145
  • I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting;

    it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.

    — Queen Victoria
    144
  • Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.

    — Augustus
    143
  • The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.

    — Frederick the Great
    143
  • I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

    — Elizabeth II
    142
  • There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

    — Marie Antoinette
    140
  • If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

    — Augustus
    139
  • Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

    — Louis XIV
    139
  • They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

    — Elizabeth II
    137
  • Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

    — Marie Antoinette
    136
  • Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing.

    — Frederick the Great
    132
  • The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

    — Queen Victoria
    132
  • Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

    — Elizabeth I
    131
  • Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

    — Marie Antoinette
    129
  • A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

    — Frederick the Great
    128
  • Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

    — Augustus
    127
  • Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.

    — Frederick the Great
    125
  • The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

    — Augustus
    125
  • Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

    — George III
    123
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