Royal Quotes

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes

I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live.

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.

The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

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.

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.

Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.

I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.

In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.

I would love to DJ the royal wedding. Just so I could play Candle in the Wind non-stop.

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

To the royal guards of this realm, we are all victims in-waiting.

I'm a royal pain in the behind.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

I hated the royal wedding.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena.

The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]

Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time.