Victoria Hanley Quotes

A family on the throne is an interesting idea.... It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Kings! Why, what's a king? .... Is their blood purer than our own? We are all the seed of Abraham!

The present King and Queen are popular, very, and increasingly so, but they have no message for the Labour Party who believe them, and rightly I fear, to be but the puppets of a Palace clique…. Still, it is the aristocracy which still rules England although nobody seems to believe it.

It's a primitive thing, kings and queens.

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.

News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore,” Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place to strap it on that didn’t interfere with the flamethrower. “No queens, no kings, no emperors. Not in America. Only CEOs. Same thing, but not so many crowns.

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.

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

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

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

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

[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.

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

…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.

She certainly is a great queen, and were she only a Catholic she would be our dearly beloved. Just look how well she governs; she is only a woman, only mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; The subject, not the citizen; for kings And subjects, mutual foes, forever play A losing game into each other's hands, Whose stakes are vice and misery. The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

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

The word “must” may not be used to princes.

The monarchy is a labor-intensive industry.

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

Should the old system remain, then I swear before God to you that within a few years we shall see a Stadholder back again for I know of no other counter-weight to the formidable spirit of Aristocracy …

The king must never appear in public except when the occasion is extremely important or unavoidable.

The Republic established by the founders was a fragile experiment in a world bestrode by kings, queens, emperors, czars, dictators, and theories of aristocracy.

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

Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry.