Austin O'Malley Quotes

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

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

[There] are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.

They will leave the King nothing other than the empty name of King, no more

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are 'the best of kings'. It is their power, their splendour, it is the apprehension of the personal consequences of their favour or their hatred that dazzles the imagination and suspends the judgement of their favourites or their vassals; but death cancels the bond of allegiance and of interest; and seen AS THEY WERE, their power and their pretensions look monstrous and ridiculous.

Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

What the King dreams, the Hand builds.

When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost the reality of power. The English, having cut off the head of one of their kings and chased another off the throne, still go on their knees to address the successors of those princes. On the other hand, when a republic falls under one man's yoke, the ruler's demeanor remains simple, unaffected, and modest, as if he had not already been raised above everybody.

I got a king-sized bed. I don't know any kings, but if one came over, I guess he'd be comfortable.

The king was pregnant.

'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.

Kings are falling like leaves this autumn.

It's good to be the king.

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.