Thomas Tudor Tucker Quotes

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.

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

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

I'd say that the whole 'sitting on the Iron Throne' experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don't have that many encounters with thrones in their day to day lives.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

I do not call majesty that pomp which surrounds kings or that exterior magnificence which dazzles the vulgar. That is but the reflection of majesty and not majesty itself. Majesty is the image of the grandeur of God in the prince.

Velvet and gilding do not make a throne, nor gold and jewels a scepter. It is a throne because the most exalted one sits there,—and a scepter because the most mighty one wields it.

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

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

Icy and earthy, Helen Mirren is a rare, regal presence in a movie age that values the plebeian over the patrician and mass over class. Lauded with an Oscar and an Emmy for playing both Queen Elizabeths, Mirren has matched her cool aristocracy with a boldness of performance and display.

My image is that of the King of Gold.

The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.

'Dynasty' is such an appealing title in and of itself, not even knowing about the original series. It's a word that evokes power and legacy and a certain level of epic-ness.

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.

It's great to be queen!

The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.