Marie Antoinette Quotes

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

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

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

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.

My image is that of the King of Gold.

The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle.

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

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.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

In Gravity clad, He has nought in his Head, But Visions of Nobles & Kings With Commons below, Who respectfully bow, And worship the dignified Things

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.

I see that I have, as part of my stock in trade, a very regal personality and carriage. I see that I have a kind of strength, a kind of command, and a kind of power that one would associated with a monarch.

I am the herald of the Great King.

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.

'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.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill spoken of.