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William Shakespeare quotesUneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Benjamin Disraeli quotesEveryone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Thomas Hardy quotesAspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
George Bernard Shaw quotesVulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
Leonard Cohen quotesI have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.
Oscar Wilde quotesThere is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Mark Twain quotesA monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.
Napoleon I quotesA throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne quotesPrinces give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.
Ovid quotesMajesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.