Brandon Sanderson Quotes

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

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

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order.

Titles were symbols, just as impressive buildings were symbols, except that titles, unlike buildings, cost nothing.

I have made you a count and a duke, but I could not make you a gentleman.

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

It wouldn't bother me at all if I weren't Princess Caroline of Monaco.

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

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

It's great to be queen!

Being queen is overrated.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

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

Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.

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

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.

You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.