Top 808 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Royalties - Page 14

Together, for over 50 years, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia have devoted themselves to Spain.

Sometimes it just means flying from Bogota to New York via Amsterdam to have a day with your kids. When we spend time with them, I think we do our utmost best to be really with them - on vacations or during weekends or even at breakfast in the morning.

We live in such a hyperliterate world, soaked and saturated in writing: on our machines, on the streets, on our television screens. It's just that writing doesn't live in the boxes that it used to. The genie is out of the bottle. But that just means that the magic could be anywhere.

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.

Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

I don't like children.

There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.

You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.

Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time.

The fact that I fell in love with Meghan so incredibly quickly was sort of confirmation to me that all the stars were aligned; everything was just perfect. It was this beautiful woman just sort of literally tripped and fell into my life; I fell into her life.

The cause of Hawaii and independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.

For many children, the sport they do is because that is the one that was most available to them.

No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan.

When I was younger, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, which meant, for me, sitting in front of a book was really hard - until I discovered Harry Potter, and this character, this 11-year-old boy, who suddenly gets off to school for the first time, captured my imagination, and suddenly reading was fun. Reading was inspiring, and I was motivated.

The voices of the people are the voices of God.

I used to think I was stupid and slow.

As long as His Majesty is sick, I will move my bed to his chambers, the better to care for him.

The best way to make Communists is to put the Americans into a place where there were no Communists before.

I'm ashamed to say that I really hated the Internet. I didn't understand it and I thought, 'What's the point of this?'

I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.