Robert Burton Quotes

Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

I'm not a princess. My mother is, not I. I am the niece of a head of state. And with this status, I have some representational duties - nothing very constraining or very exceptional.

You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

My family's a ruling family.

In the museum, next to the dinosaurs---that’s where the monarchy should go.

You may rely upon one thing — I'll never engage in creating kings again; it's too great a strain.

Monarchy and aristocracy, valuable and useful as I think them, are still valuable and useful as means, and not as ends.

Yes, SIRE, you are being misled, the goodwill of princes is being abused; even the Nobility itself is in the wrong.

I don't think I have enough German blood in me to get into the royal family.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.

I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights.

He was royalty. So what? Everyone had a flaw.

I am available for kings and queens but not banana republic presidents.

In Spain the king rules, but in the Sierra I do.

It is better to be the subject of a prince than of a republic, for a republic keeps its subjects under, and gives no share of its greatness save to its own citizens; a prince is common to all, one man is as much his subject as another, therefore every one can hope to be favoured or employed.

…those are called gentlemen who live idly in abundance from the returns of their possessions without having any care either for cultivation or for other necessary trouble in living. Such are pernicious in every republic and in every province, but more pernicious are those who, beyond the aforesaid fortunes, command from a castle and have subjects to obey them.

Do the adherents of this mad theory [Evolution] realize the disgrace they are bringing on the most respectable families! There is not an aristocracy in Europe or America that can stand it one moment. For aristocracy is based on the greatness of forefathers…. With a monkey in the background, how can even a Hapsburg or a Guelf put on airs of superiority? How must he hide his face in shame to think, that, as his line lengthens into an obscure antiquity, the foreheads of his house slope, and their jaws project; that he has literally been all his life aping aristocracy, instead of being the real thing; and that, when he has reached his true beginning, his only consolation must be found in the fact that his great skulking, hulking, gibbering baboon of an ancestor rejoices, like himself, in the possession of "the third lobe," "the posterior cornu of the lateral ventricle," and "the hippocampus minor.

The Inca honored the men of the blood royal by permitting them to bore their ears where women do today, but with larger holes … and this was the sign of nobility and royal caste ...

Commerce and politics do not go with royalty, full stop.

What the heck is a king? I'm a cog in the wheel.

Don't call me 'sir; 'King Jew' will do fine.