Shakespeare Royalty 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

Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive. -Jack Reacher — M.J. Rose

Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts. — Napoleon Hill

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

I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published. — John Connolly

It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all folk beliefs are equally valid - if we're talking not about an internal mindset, but about understanding of the external reality. — Carl Sagan

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

Some things can't be taught; they can only be discovered. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

History ... a release from the troublesome promiscuous present. — Tod Wodicka