Moctezuma I Quotes

I have no right to be a king, but I have the right to create a king.

When I dressed up for visiting Kings and Queens it would take me an hour. When I went to the provinces it would take me twice the time. They needed a standard…. I must be glamorous because I am representing the people

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

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.

I hereby proclaim myself King of Egypt to ensure the country’s dignity and its international status.

I know my people. They like grandeur. They want us to have respect abroad in the eyes of other countries.

Francis Joseph by the Grace of God, Emperor of Austria and Hungary, Croatia, Slovinia, Dalmatia, Apostolic King.

The Queen has stayed with me in the sense that she lets people come to her. She doesn't feel like she has to go out. I mean, she doesn't have to anyway because of her rank and her position, but she doesn't have to overdo it.

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

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

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.

I'm a King. Regardless of what I've been through and what I've done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

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

I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security.

The authority of a king is the keystone which closeth up the arch of order and government

With Concern I perceive that it has infused into the Minds of People here the most intolerable Rage for Monarchy that can be imagined. Verily I believe that a very great proportion are ripe for a King & would salute the President as such with all the Folly of Enthusiasm.

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

The king must sometimes govern by acts of state as well as acts of law.

I love the English …. I am the child of Queen Victoria. But I am also King in my own country and must be treated as such. Somsteu must speak gently to me. I shall not bear his dictation … I shall perish first.

A crown is no more than a hat that lets in the rain.

Kings need the company of the intelligent far more than the intelligent need the company of kings.