Quotes about Royalty

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"In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do."- Gianni Versace

"Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own."- Philip Treacy

"Royalty does good and is badly spoken of."- Antisthenes

"Humility is royalty without a crown."- Spencer W. Kimball

"Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues."- Agesilaus II

"Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away."- Clarence Darrow

"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."- Benjamin Disraeli

"The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth."- Samuel Johnson

"Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be."- Princess Diana

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."- William Shakespeare

"Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely."- Douglas Coupland

"A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping."- Ben Jonson

"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet."- Napoleon Bonaparte

"We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you."- Mary Kay Ash

"When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich."- Honore de Balzac

"But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation."- Kate Bush

"There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God."- Elizabeth I

"An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold."- Mary Elizabeth Lease

"A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."- Walter Bagehot

"People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty."- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

"Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay."- John Osborne

"The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race."- Mark Twain

"Royalty is a fine burial shroud."- Theodora

"Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose."- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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