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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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
Royalty is a fine burial shroud. -- Theodora
Royalty does good and is badly spoken of. -- Antisthenes
Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay -- John Osborne
Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues -- Agesilaus II
Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government. -- Robert Runcie
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. -- Philip Treacy
Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant. -- Vine Deloria Jr.
Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle. -- Oliver Cromwell
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do. -- Gianni Versace
Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source. -- Bill Johnson
Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely. -- Douglas Coupland
Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel -- Benjamin Disraeli
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. -- Walter Bagehot
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God. -- Elizabeth I
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
A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters. -- Willard Spiegelman
In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly. -- Nostradamus
Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. -- Bobby Jindal
On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his art was about, he'd hit them with the same three words: "Royalty, heroism, and the streets. -- Jay-Z
My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of - or reincarnated from - royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God. -- Duke Ellington
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' -- Jeff Foxworthy
I think we have reached a level in society - with Helen Mirren playing The Queen - when we're not surprised any more. We don't mention names. Yes, it's obvious by inference. But we don't mention names and the film is not up to point fingers at Royalty. -- David Suchet
I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure. -- Amanda McKittrick Ros
For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. -- Walter Scott
Call me Diana, not Princess Diana. -- Princess Diana
Many a crown Covers bald foreheads. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns. -- William Shakespeare
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. -- William Shakespeare
I'd like to be queen of people's hearts. -- Princess Diana
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies. -- Maria Gowen Brooks
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. -- Samuel Johnson
As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave. -- William Habington
Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king. -- Thomas Hardy
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping. -- Ben Jonson
If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. -- George Will
A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men. -- George Eliot
A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care! -- Hannah More
I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. -- William Cowper
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is generous, valiant, just, and wise, And so continues till he dies. -- Jonathan Swift
I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms. -- Leonard Cohen
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. -- James F. Cooper
Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests. -- David Cronenberg
No band is special, no player royalty. -- Krist Novoselic
There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty. -- Dan Shechtman
My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond. -- Fetty Wap
Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books. -- Bobby Fischer
I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty. -- Wesley Snipes
I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world. -- Yayoi Kusama
Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man. -- Jeff Bridges
The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids. -- LZ Granderson
This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty. -- Katy Perry
I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations. -- Hunter Hayes
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
If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers. -- Mark Shand
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It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty. -- Kate Walsh
Specifically with respect to the Inhumans, they are almost a mythological creation in and of themselves - the way they work, the way they operate, the fact that they're royalty - and they've always been involved with a lot of the big cosmos events that Marvel has done. -- Charles Soule
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects. -- F. Sionil Jose
Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been doing for 40 years. I thought that was contemptible - what do they want to do, ghettoize the working class as a subject? Can you only write about your own class? I've written about royalty, am I not allowed to do that? -- Martin Amis
We were descended from royalty. -- Natalie Wood
Dallas Green is basically Canadian royalty. -- Sara Quin
Humility is royalty without a crown. -- Spencer W. Kimball
Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty. -- John Agar
Years ago women of my size were considered royalty. -- Camryn Manheim
If you are not royalty, He is not King. -- Beth Moore
I didn't send back any of the royalty checks. -- Ira Levin
He was royalty. So what? Everyone had a flaw. -- Gena Showalter
You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires. -- Tom Stoppard
There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system. -- Kit Harington
I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty! -- Scott Disick
Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King? -- William Shakespeare
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. -- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race. -- Mark Twain
I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off. -- Charley Pride
A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien. -- Victor Hugo
People say we need royalty. We have royalty in the United States - the Kardashians. -- David Letterman
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. -- Aristotle
Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty. -- I. L. Peretz
I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty. -- Johnny Carson
Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free. -- Tim Berners-Lee
All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler. -- William Doyle
The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques. -- Martin Bashir
Nature has placed you on the throne of royalty as the heir of all life that preceded you. -- Bryant McGill
Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home? -- Tony Evans
Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors. -- Elsa Maxwell
[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch. -- Princess Margaret
We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns. -- Nicolas Cage
2001 King of the Ring? I really like the sound of that! That REEKS OF ROYALTY! So begins the ERA OF AWESOMENESS! -- Edge
A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks. -- Joe Perry
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. -- Jimmy Breslin
Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority. -- Aristotle
Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty. -- Tina Brown
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life. -- Frank Ocean
The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me. -- Michel de Montaigne
I will say that I'm proud of my connection to DC comics because they are absolutely fabulous in sending reprint royalty checks. -- Mike Royer
I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention. -- Yusuf Hamied
I think he supersedes Peyton Manning but let's not throw Tom Brady in the category with Joe Montana, who was 4-for-4. He's royalty. -- Deion Sanders
The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it. -- Geena Davis
If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer. -- Stephen Colbert
When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner. -- Stephen Colbert
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. -- Doris Lessing
...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones -- Carleton S. Coon
When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to try to touch you. -- Kerri Kasem
I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day. -- Roxanne Shante
I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift of my messenger. -- Bill Bright
I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty. -- Aaron Watson
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live. -- Mark Twain
The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe. -- Edward Abbey
In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life. -- Paul Newman
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity. -- Jean Genet
Angels, demons, sex. Heaven, hell, war. Blood and royalty, history and magic, fire and ice. And a story you cannot put down. This is fantasy at its best. -- Stephen Graham Jones
There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears. -- Taryn Manning
If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family. -- Douglas Brinkley

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