| Author |
Quotes |
| Ben Jonson | Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws. |
| Ben Jonson | A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping. |
| Ben Jonson | They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a Prince as soon as his groom. |
| Bible | And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedest the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. |
| Bible | Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. |
| Charles Jean Henault | She governs but she does not reign. |
| Charles Simon Favart | Every citizen is king under a citizen king. |
| Claudian | That man is deceived who thinks it slavery to live under an excellent prince. Never does liberty appear in a more gracious form than under a pious king. |
| Diana Princess of Wales | I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being Queen of this country. |
| Edward Young | A partial world will list to my lays, While Anna reigns, and sets a female name Unrival'd in the glorious lists of fame. |
| Elizabeth II | Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. |
| Esaias Tegner | Hener was the hero-king, Heaven-born, dear to us, Showing his shield A shelter for peace. |
| Etienne Bequet | Unhappy France! Unhappy King! |
| Hannah More | A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To bear the miseries of a people! And sink beneath a load of splendid care! |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. |
| John Byrom | God bless the King--I mean the faith's defender; God bless the pretender; But who the pretender is, or who is King-- God bless us all--that's quite another thing. |
| Julia Pardoe | The King is dead! Long live the King! |
| Karl Schonhausen Bismarck | The king reigns but does not govern |
| Karl Schonhausen Bismarck | The Prussian Sovereigns are in possession of a crown not be the grace of the people but by God s grace |
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