Top 167 Monarch Quotes & Sayings

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

If inheritance tax were to be introduced for the monarch, it would mean slowly slicing away the royal assets.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour.

A constitutional monarchy requires the monarch to be above politics but to be fully informed about politics.

I had breathed in the atmosphere created by Henri Christophe, the monarch of incredible aims, much more surprising than all the kings invented by the surrealists.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

One child is never enough for a monarch.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.

I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

We fought a revolution to free ourselves from arbitrary power and the whims of a monarch.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

The Monarch is the Big Bad to this one family of former adventurers, but we've always known there is a bureaucracy of villains that is a workman-like aspect to them.

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

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

ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way.

It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.

His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse.

In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

The case for democracy is that voters in the aggregate will make better decisions than a lone monarch or dictator would.

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.

I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

Shirt Club isn't just a series of shirts that say 'I Love The Monarch' on them.

A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.