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Quotes by Royalty

"You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand."
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Princess Anne
"You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand."
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"Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government."
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King George V
"Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government."
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"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."
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Princess Diana
"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."
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"There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself."
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Louis XIV
"There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself."
Man,
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"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."
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Frederick II
"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."
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"All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise."
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Cleopatra
"All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise."
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"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children."
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Edward VIII
"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children."
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"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
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Queen Victoria
"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
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"I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them."
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Princess Diana
"I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them."
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"If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all."
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Elizabeth I
"If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all."
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"I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!"
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Elizabeth I
"I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!"
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"I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes."
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Marie Louise
"I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes."
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"I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it."
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Wallis Simpson
"I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it."
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"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children."
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Elizabeth I
"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children."
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"Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dog's out."
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Princess Anne
"Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dog's out."
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"I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it."
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Charles II
"I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it."
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"Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth."
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Duke of Wellington
"Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth."
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"Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue."
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Henry Bolingbroke
"Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue."
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"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful."
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Queen Victoria
"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful."
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"A face is too slight a foundation for happiness."
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Mary Wortley
"A face is too slight a foundation for happiness."
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"I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war."
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King George V
"I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war."
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"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."
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Queen Victoria
"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."
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"God forgive you, but I never can."
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Elizabeth I
"God forgive you, but I never can."
God,
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"First feelings are always the most natural."
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Louis XIV
"First feelings are always the most natural."
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"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."
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Princess Diana
"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."
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"I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors."
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King George V
"I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors."
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"Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts."
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Elizabeth I
"Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts."
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"I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman."
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Elizabeth I
"I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman."
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"I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything."
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Elizabeth I
"I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything."
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"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."
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Prince William
"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."
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"It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches."
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Frederick The Great
"It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches."
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"What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?"
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Frederick II
"What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?"
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"Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you."
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Cleopatra
"Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you."
Now,
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"Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children."
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Princess Diana
"Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children."
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"My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people."
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Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
"My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people."
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"Your greatest achievement is to love me."
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Prince Charles
"Your greatest achievement is to love me."
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"And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth."
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Owen Glendower
"And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth."
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"A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head."
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Elizabeth I
"A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head."
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"The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue."
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Henry Bolingbroke
"The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue."
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"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too."
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Elizabeth I
"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too."
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"I know my own heart to be entirely English."
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Princess Anne
"I know my own heart to be entirely English."
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"Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power."
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Mary Wortley
"Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power."
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"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."
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Elizabeth II
"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."
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"He who placed me in this seat will keep me here."
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Elizabeth I
"He who placed me in this seat will keep me here."
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"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring."
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Prince William
"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring."
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"Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune."
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Owen Glendower
"Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune."
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"I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people."
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Elizabeth I
"I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people."
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"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort."
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Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort."
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"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible."
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Elizabeth I
"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible."
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"I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."
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Catherine the Great
"I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."
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