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Quotes by Royalty

"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."

"It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do."

"Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?"

"Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?"

"Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden."

"My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please."

"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring."

"For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of."

"Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand."

"Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth."

"You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand."

"It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches."

"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful."

"Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts."

"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."

"Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue."

"I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."

"I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross."


"Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting."

"We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep."

"When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there."

"A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head."

"My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize."
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