Royalty Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings

Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King? — William Shakespeare

Uneasy lies the head that wears a Knighthood — Dean Cavanagh

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure. — Ada Leverson

Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time. — Demetri Martin

There's no point in making a plan because somehow it always manages to fall apart. — Jami Wagner

It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live
exist or whatever
in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to be real grown-up lives. I just find everybody else's life surrounded by plate glass. I mean I'd like to break through it just once and actually touch one. — Elaine Dundy

I swear again, I would not be a queen
For all the world. — William Shakespeare

Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm from an anointed King; — William Shakespeare

When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate. — Phyllis Diller

Poets, as a class, are business men. Shakespeare describes the poet's eye as rolling in a fine frenzy from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, and giving to airy nothing a local habitation and a name, but in practice you will find that one corner of that eye is generally glued on the royalty returns. — P.G. Wodehouse

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future. — Winston Churchill

Like Princes crowned they bore them
Like Demi-Gods they wrought,
When the New World lay before them
In headlong fact and thought.
Fate and their foemen proved them
Above all meed of praise,
And Gloriana loved them,
And Shakespeare wrote them plays!
...
Now Valour, Youth, and Life's delight break forth
In flames of wondrous deed, and thought sublime
Lightly to mould new worlds or lightly loose
Words that shall shake and shape all after-time!
Giants with giants, wits with wits engage,
And England-England-England takes the breath
Of morning, body and soul, till the great Age
Fulfills in one great chord:
Elizabeth! — Rudyard Kipling