Royal Quotes

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

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

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

It is outrageous that the Queen has invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee.

I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

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

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.

Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service.

I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.

The royal commissions are successful and effective when they have a focused terms of reference and can do the job quickly and report. And then action can be taken.

On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

But evil fortune has decreed, (The foe of mice as well as men) The royal mouse at last should bleed, Should fall ne'er to arise again.

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones.

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

It seems that England's royal family is running out of money. They are down to just $1.6 million. Well sure, that's what happens when nobody in your family has had a job for the last thousand years.

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

How’s Her Royal Bitchiness?” “Alive.” “Pity.