Royalty Quotes

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.

I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty.

Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

I love everything I do and I can still remember the days of cashing my first royalty check for $2. I have such a great life, I'm proud of everything.

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.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

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.

Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

No band is special, no player royalty.

Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

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

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]

I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

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

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.

And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.