115 Royalty Quotes to Inspire Your Inner Majesty

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Famous Royalty Quotes

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. — Walter Bagehot

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay — John Osborne

Royalty is a fine burial shroud. — Theodora

Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. — Philip Treacy

Royalty does good and is badly spoken of. — Antisthenes

Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues — Agesilaus II

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do. - Gianni Versace

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do. — Gianni Versace

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source. — Bill Johnson

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely. — Douglas Coupland

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely. — Doug Coupland

Humility is royalty without a crown. — Spencer W. Kimball

I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty! — Scott Disick

My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond. - Fetty Wap

My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond. — Fetty Wap

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. — William Shakespeare

If you are not royalty, He is not King. — Beth Moore

Short Royalty Quotes

  • I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.] — Louis XIV
  • All the time I feel I must justify my existence. — Prince Charles
  • A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men. — George Eliot
  • And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns. — William Shakespeare
  • [There’s] only one king in the jungle. Hey, you cannot be interim king, only one king. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
  • There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings. — Sarah Moore Grimke
  • Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. — Benjamin Disraeli
  • Who’s the real queen? Hell yeah, hell yeah. Bow down, I’m the real queen! — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
  • Cash is never a king, especially when people repeat the phrase often. — Naved Abdali
  • To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.] — Cardinal Richelieu

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Queen Royalty Quotes

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

My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty. — Kate Walsh

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle! — Queen Victoria

Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens. — Susan Boyle

I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom. — Elizabeth I

I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space. — Anna Wintour

A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien. — Victor Hugo

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen. — John Burroughs

I'm not a queen of anything, you know. — Caitlin Rose

I Am Royalty Quotes

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. — William Cowper

I am being embezzled from by this monstrous ring of accountants and estate planners and lawyers, who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties. — Randy Quaid

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. — Geoffrey Chaucer

I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there are politicians from the 1800s as well as Tuskegee Airmen in my lineage. — Cuba Gooding, Jr.

I am very fond of fresh air and royalties. — Daisy Ashford

Royal Family Quotes

On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . . — Mother Teresa

I have to be seen to be believed. - Queen Elizabeth II

I have to be seen to be believed. — Queen Elizabeth II

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace. — Martin Short

There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media. — Max Hastings

Members of the Royal Family are a part of the Kuwaiti people, and the same laws apply to them. Whoever makes a mistake bears responsibility for that mistake. — Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible. — George Tenet

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. — Henny Youngman

We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal family, princesses and dukes. But social mobility in the UK is higher than in the US. Our social rift is as big as it was in the 1920s. — Robert Reich

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue. — Prince Andrew

I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer. — Prince Philip

Royal Quotes

There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love — Sathya Sai Baba

No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people. — Thomas Paine

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

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

Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings. — Mary Slessor

The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick). — Robert Hooke

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. - Winston Churchill

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. — Winston Churchill

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. — Dale Carnegie

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons. — Henry Timrod

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated — Robert Greene

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. - Sigmund Freud

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. — Sigmund Freud

Being Royal Quotes

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom. — Cyprian

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens. — Fran Lebowitz

Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature. — Hafez

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of. — Antisthenes

I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination. — Redd Foxx

Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils. — William Gurnall

Be strong and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You are princesses, destined to become queens. Your own wondrous story has already begun. Your "once upon a time" is now. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there. — Seth Lloyd

I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess! — Queen Noor of Jordan

True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth. — Alice Cary

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More Royalty Quotes

After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born. — Annie Oakley

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques. — Martin Bashir

My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of - or reincarnated from - royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God. — Duke Ellington

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' — Jeff Foxworthy

I beseech you never to deprive me of your most noble patronage and to believe me when I say that I will never forget a prince so replete with goodness and great merits. — Antonio Vivaldi

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. — Jimmy Breslin

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. — Joe Strummer

A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is generous, valiant, just, and wise, And so continues till he dies. — Jonathan Swift

I think he supersedes Peyton Manning but let's not throw Tom Brady in the category with Joe Montana, who was 4-for-4. He's royalty. — Deion Sanders

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function. — Glenn Greenwald

Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted. — Grace Slick

The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on without Good morrow to the sun. — William Shakespeare

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold. — Mary Elizabeth Lease

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care! — Hannah More

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws. — Ben Jonson

The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important people from where they were to where they wanted to go. That's really what a coach is. He or she tries to create a vehicle that will help you get where you're going, not where the coach wants you to go. — Timothy Gallwey

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

Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty. — John Agar

The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once. — Queen Victoria

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