Famous quotes by Royaltys

"Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils"

"Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious"

"Publish and be dammed"

"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained"

"I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men"

"As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'"

"An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them"

"All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'"

"I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim"

"First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys"

"What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today"

"To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all"

"Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen"

"The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load"

"No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her"

"Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance"

"In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945"

"I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect"

"I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust"

"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort"

"Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches"

"Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people"

"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage"

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist"

"The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself"

"The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them"

"I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous"

"I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness"

"I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all"

"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting"