Quotes of: Monarch Keyword

[LaBoeuf sits down for supper at the Monarch Boarding House] Monarch boarder: Watch out for the chicken and dumplings. They'll hurt your eyes. LaBoeuf: How's that? Monarch boarder: They'll hurt your eyes lookin' for the chicken. [he and other boarder...

True Grit

The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also freer since he does not have to rule.

Eumeswil

When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its r...

Politics

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

Prince Andrew

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Charles de Secondat

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Charles Lamb

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

Thomas Paine

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

Robert Hurt

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

Elizabeth I

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

J. M. Roberts

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

Oscar Wilde

Our central problem is not sin and guilt, as it is within the monarchical model. For the Spirit model, our central problem is “estrangement,” whose specific meaning of “separated from that to which one belongs” is most appropriate. ... For th...

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

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

Mason Cooley

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

Charlie Chaplin

Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.

Christopher Unborn

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

Pierre Corneille

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There are two kinds of patriotism -- monarchical patriotism and republican patriotism. In the one case the government and the king may rightfully furnish you their notions of patriotism; in the other, neither the government nor the entire nation is p...

Mark Twain

... every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.

Bring Up the Bodies

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

Kirsty Gallacher

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

Anna Howard Shaw