Famous quotes by Royaltys

"Rogues, would you live forever?"

Frederick The Great, Royalty

"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in"

Frederick The Great, Royalty

"You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - It went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes"

Prince William, Royalty

Prince William

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

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Royalty

"Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young"

Augustus, Royalty

Augustus

"My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people"

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Royalty

"A king's true power lies not in his armies or his treasures, but in his wisdom and his ability to govern justly"

Philip IV, Royalty

Philip IV

"Justice is the foundation of all good government"

Philip IV, Royalty

Philip IV

"After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months"

King George V, Royalty

King George V

"The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet"

Titus Flavius Vespasian, Royalty

"When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife"

Prince Philip, Royalty

"He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign"

Louis XI, Royalty

"It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms"

King Hassan II, Royalty

"You can never be too rich or too thin"

Wallis Simpson, Royalty

"Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die"

Anne Boleyn, Royalty

"When my journal appears, many statues must come down"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

Duke of Wellington

"The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

Duke of Wellington

"Publish and be damned"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

Duke of Wellington

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

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

Duke of Wellington

"Publish and be dammed"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

Duke of Wellington

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

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

Duke of Wellington

"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'"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

Duke of Wellington

"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"The end crowneth the work"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"Must! Is 'must' a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly"

Catherine the Great, Royalty

Catherine the Great

"If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off"

Catherine the Great, Royalty

Catherine the Great

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