Monarchism Quotes & Sayings

On occasions of this sort it was, I must admit, very pleasurable to be a monarch: to be able to get important things done by smothering stupid opposition with a single authoritative word. — Robert Graves

If there's one lesson that I've been taught it is that when it comes to the bad, everyone wants to be a drop in the ocean. Insignificant and without fault. They want to be a drop instead of the straw that breaks the camel's back. — Kay Whitley

I'd rather be a freak than a clone. — Joanne Harris

She was very beautiful and he felt he loved her. She was not beautiful as a state or a picture is beautiful; she was beautiful as a meadow across which the wind blows. It was life that pulsed in her and that had formed her into what she was. — Erich Maria Remarque

They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many. — Jane Austen

I look at the Star of David as a symbol of righteousness. — Amar'e Stoudemire

Money must exist before it can be turned into capital. — David Harvey

It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. — Katherine Mansfield

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it. — Carly Simon

Id her beware of French principles, which had led the French to cut off their king's and queen's heads. — Elizabeth Gaskell

If, for example, one day Ki Bagoes Hadikoesoemo becomes the Indonesian Head of State, and dies, won't his child be [his replacement]? Then because of that I do not adhere to the principle of monarchism. — Sukarno

Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance. — Auliq Ice

Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away. — Daniel Bliss

It was inevitable under a monarchy, however benevolent the monarch. The old virtues disappear. Independence and frankness are at a discount. Complacent anticipation of the monarch's wishes is then the greatest of all virtues. One must either be a good monarch like yourself, or a good courtier like myself - either an Emperor or an idiot. — Robert Graves

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format? — Wilbur Ross

America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism. — Mark Levin

The Catholic Church ... upheld feudalism, then monarchism, warning of growing evils and possible revolutions. In the same manner, and under the same reservations, she now upholds capitalism; but, above all things and forever, she upholds the Catholic Church. — Daniel De Leon

Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue. — William Makepeace Thackeray