Monarchs Quotes

Monarchs Quote of the day

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.

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

Fear of change perplexes monarchs.

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.

Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.

Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

When kings the sword of justice first lay down, They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.