I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!
Rebecca McKinseyTags: parents respect authority royalty elders
Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?"
"No, Matthew. What do they say?"
"The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.
Tags: death change grief royalty
Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm from an anointed King;
Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.
Jennifer DonnellyTags: royalty kings french-revolution louis-xiv versailles
If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable.
Christopher HitchensTags: morality autonomy iraq iraq-war royalty kurdish-people al-khalifa-family bahrain kurdistan statehood
The Duke has decreed that the Castle is not cold." The gentleman's lips are almost blue from this lack of cold. "And the Duke is right and correct in this as in all things."
...some very beautiful tapestries line the walls, but many of them are also full of holes. Perhaps the Duke has decreed that there are no moths, either.
Tags: arrogance royalty hubris
All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,
From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.
Tags: monarchy royalty monarch
God bless our good and gracious King,
Whose promise none relies on;
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one.
Tags: politics president royalty
We should be used to it," Tatiana reasons. "There have always been lines separating us from the rest of the world, whether they were satin ribbons or iron rails.
Sarah MillerTags: russia royalty russian-revolution otma romanovs tsar-nicholas
I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am.
Sarah MillerTags: life inspirational self russia royalty russian-revolution anastasia otma romanovs tsar-nicholas
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