Royalty Quotes

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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.

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

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.

I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]

Only do what your heart tells you.

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.

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.

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

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.

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.

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.

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.

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

Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.

First feelings are always the most natural.

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

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

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.

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.

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.

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

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.

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

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

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.

Only small minds want always to be right.

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.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

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.

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.

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.

The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.

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.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

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

They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

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

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.

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.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

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

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.

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.

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.