Top 808 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Royalties - Page 2

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

Learning is the gateway to adventure.

The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.

The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.

To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.

Global market forces will sort out those companies that do not have sound corporate governance.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.

Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

I have a lot of respect for His Majesty Juan Carlos. I call him Uncle Juan because he is an extraordinary person whom I have known for a long time.

It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments.

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going to continue to be "Fortress Israel"? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation

My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions. Macedon is too small for you.

Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.

Nothing is impossible to a valiant heart.

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.

I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability in this country, but also a 21st-century king who can unite, represent and encourage society.

Amongst other our secular businesses and cures, our principal intent and fervent desire is to see virtue and cleanness of living to be advanced, increased, and multiplied, and vices and all other things repugnant to virtue, provoking the high indignation and fearful displeasure of God, to be repressed and annulled.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

I definitely have some Canadianisms that I bring to the table.

Technology is for us. All of us. People who carry things.

We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself

We tend to take things for granted that we've had for long periods of time. Take a moment to appreciate the person in your life. Realize why you are with them. Take a moment with them and really be in that moment completely.

I have no intention of sharing my authority.

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other.

I love long walks on the beach, big dicks, and fried chicken.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.

I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

Nature is under control but not disturbed.

People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country.

I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.

What you teach us to do is good; what you teach us to believe is silly.

Paris isn't a city, it's a world.

How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

Evil to him who evil thinks.

I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.

Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune.