100+ Majesty Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Sir Humphry Davy, John DAVY (M.D., F.R.S.) (1858). “Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ... With a sketch of his life, and selections from his correspondence. Edited by his brother John Davy”, p.14

topic: Men, Majesty, Way

In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.

- James Ellis

topic: Winter, Naked, Majesty

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

- James Otis

topic: Majesty, Dominion, Revolution, Taxation Without Representation

Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.

- Jean Racine

topic: God, Majesty, Fear God

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Heart, Majesty, Scripture

Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His.

- Jerry Bridges

topic: Honor, Majesty, Worship

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

- John Calvin

topic: Men, Majesty, Awareness

It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still whereon majesty and glory do reside, and God is always to be considered by us as on a throne.

- John Owen

topic: Grace, Thrones, Majesty

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

- Joseph Barbera

source: Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

topic: Religious, Religion, Majesty, Religious Experience

She has the majesty of hurricanes and explosions.

- Lauren DeStefano

topic: Majesty, Hurricanes, Explosions

Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.

- M. F. K. Fisher

topic: Wine, Drunk, Majesty

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

- Marianne Faithfull

topic: Air, Majesty, Discs, Compression

Regarding Her Majesty, Queen Levana, has she or any of the Lunar court commented on the escape of the convict?" Kai's jaw tensed. "Oh, she's had a thing or two to say about it.

- Marissa Meyer

topic: Queens, Two, Majesty

Majesty, I beg your forgiveness for the idignity you suffered and offer you the head of our enemy asâ€”" "Put that thing down," I said impatiently. "I can't talk to you when you're shaking his head like a damned maraca.

- MaryJanice Davidson

source: MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.225, Penguin

topic: Enemy, Majesty, Said

Christian worship must contain both the cross and the crown. Sing of majesty, and sing of mercy.

- Matt Redman

source: Twitter post from Oct 04, 2013

topic: Christian, Crowns, Majesty, Christian Worship

Costis bowed stiffly. â€œI am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Loss, Order, Majesty

Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Grief, Silence, Majesty

Leave everything for one moment, in unending time and just be. This is the majesty of Being

- Mooji

topic: Majesty, Moments, Unending

Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

- Parley P. Pratt

topic: Village, Majesty, Midnight

However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy. Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy.

- Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow

topic: Forgiveness, May, Majesty

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Men, Majesty, Conviction, Insignificance

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

- Ralph Steadman

topic: Ideas, Majesty, Sides, Thunderstorm

We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty.

- Rumi

topic: Angel, Heaven, Majesty

I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.

- Rumi

topic: Rain, Dying, Majesty

He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One

- Said Nursi

topic: Names, Body, Majesty, Reciting

My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married.

- Seth Grahame-Smith

source: Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.252, Quirk Books

topic: Enemy, Majesty, Lame

Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Voice, Black, Majesty

Could you please explain to me exactly what the staff is that you carry?" Cronus proudly held the symbol of his power and authority aloft. "It is the scepter that denotes my control of the Physical Realms. All who defy me should look on it and tremble." "Oh, I see! Do you know, I thought it was a giant toothpick, or perhaps something you shoved into other parts of you anatomy. I never realized it represented your supposed right to rule," said Her Vampiric Majesty lightly.

- Stuart Hill

source: Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #3: Last Battle of the Icemark”, p.357, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Giants, Looks, Majesty, Toothpicks

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

- Tony Snow

topic: Love, Majesty, Soil

Good grief! They're going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn't even met Madge yet!" "Who's Madge?" Sticky asked. "Her Majesty the Queen!

- Trenton Lee Stewart

topic: Queens, Grief, Majesty, Mysterious Benedict Society

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

- Walter Bagehot

topic: Majesty, England, Phrases

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

- William Lilly

source: William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.150

topic: Years, Majesty, Quiet, Tranquillity

I went to Buckingham Palace and I wanted to take something from there, but there was nothing good to steal, although I did nick some serviettes with ER and Her Majesty on them from the Jubilee celebrations.

- Konnie Huq

source: "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.

topic: Jubilee, Majesty, Palaces, Buckingham Palace

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.

- Peter O'Toole

topic: Mean, Gentleman, Majesty

Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable.

- Sergei Diaghilev

topic: Majesty, Like You, Indispensable

When I'm gonna sing for people I try to meditate upon his majesty and meditate on what is right and then transmit it to the nation. That is how Rastafari really influence.

- Sizzla

source: Source: www.thepier.org

topic: People, Trying, Majesty

What I'm really focused on is the majesty of the best films I see are films that don't panhandle for an extra laugh later, but actually deliver the goods. And when the screen goes black, you go, Yes.

- James Mangold

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Laughing, Black, Majesty, Best Film

Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.

- William Henry Maule

topic: Law, Judging, Majesty

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

- Jasper Fforde

topic: Verbs, Majesty, Sentences

...I'd have cheerfully thrown Her Majesty and her hundred pounds of baggage to the curb, but that wasn't mature. ~Cat on Annette

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Majesty, Baggage, Pounds

What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we've lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden?

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Heart, Garden, Majesty

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

- Franz Grillparzer

topic: Strength, Majesty, Clamor

We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

- Frederick William Faber

topic: Temples, World, Majesty

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

- Susan Sontag

source: "On Photography".

topic: Photography, Majesty, Dwarfs

There is a majesty in simplicity.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Simplicity, Majesty

Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of the thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightiness, your majesty, and your glory.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.11, editionNEXT.com

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Majesty, Powerful Thoughts

God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.

- Philip Sidney

source: Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.151

topic: Suicide, Majesty, Captains

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

- Algernon Sidney

source: "Joe Miller's jests: or, The wits vade-mecum". Book compiled by J. Mottley, p. 6, 1739.

topic: Arses, May, Majesty

Not too fast," called Raoul. "Let's not scare anyone." "His majesty said with all deliberate speed!" chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare. "That's how we're doing it," Raoul told him. "Deliberately.

- Tamora Pierce

source: Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.439, Random House Books for Young Readers

topic: Scare, Majesty, Speed

Excuse me, Abigail, but whose shift did she get away during?' Townsend asked with a glare. 'Excuse me, Townsend, but who was supposed to booby-trap the doors?' 'I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service,' Townsend said, indignant. 'I do not do booby traps.

- Ally Carter

topic: Doors, Secret, Majesty, Excuse Me, Secret Service

I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.

- Ameen Rihani

source: Ameen Fares Rihani (1930). “Around the Coasts of Arabia”

topic: Understanding, Arabia, Majesty

Many of us say we want to experience God, but we don’t look for his majesty. [Tweet this] We travel life’s paths with our heads down, focused on the next step with our careers or families or retirement plans. But we don’t really expect God to show up with divine wonder.

- Margaret Feinberg

source: FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Apr 21, 2013

topic: Retirement, Careers, Majesty

I am still reeling with delight at the soaring majesty of Norfolk.

- John Betjeman

source: John Betjeman (1994). “Letters: 1951 to 1984”

topic: Delight, Majesty, Norfolk

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

- Thomas Carlyle

topic: Work, Men, Majesty

The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.

- John Calvin

topic: Understanding, Majesty, Splendor

Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

- John Calvin

source: John Calvin, Jean Calvin, Thomas Boston (1996). “Sermons on Galatians”, Banner of Truth

topic: Fall, Majesty, Faults

The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpationsall of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.203, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: World, Majesty, Facts, King George Iii

We're trying to learn from [Olympic] Beijing, which could be very intimidating. We've learned to expect it's power, it majesty and that it completes a cycle of certain types of shows... I don't think any nation could do anything on that scale. We haven't got that money, and I don't think anybody would have the appetite for that kind of expenditure and that kind of control, so we're going to try and do something a bit more intimate and try and start again... start a new cycle for these kind of ceremonies.

- Danny Boyle

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Thinking, Trying, Majesty, Expenditures

That you prefer to rule through fear rather than justice? So sorry, Your Majesty, I’m afraid I already knew that about you.

- Marissa Meyer

topic: Sorry, Justice, Majesty

It's a great honor... and it's an honor to be with her majesty, obviously... I'm very honored to be given this honor. (upon receiving the OBE)

- David Beckham

topic: Honor, Receiving, Majesty

Now what?” Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. “Am I disturbing your Majesty?” Prala asked. “…You always disturb me, my beloved,” he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.

- David Eddings

topic: Arms, Majesty, Beloved

In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God. This is the true religion. It has a sense of a transcendent majesty and a transcendent meaning so that that puts myself and the foe under the same judgment.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

source: Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

topic: Israel, House, Majesty, Testament, House Of God

Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

- John Piper

topic: Mirrors, Paradise, Majesty

I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker parts than many others, but yet did profit me more than most; because he would never in prayer or conference speak of God, or the life to come, but with such marvelous seriousness and reverence, as if he had seen the majesty and glory which he talked of.

- Richard Baxter

source: Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, with a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.256

topic: Prayer, Godly, Majesty

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

- John Ruskin

topic: Design, Weight, Majesty

That was Hera. Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Majesty, Cannons, Hera

If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so often done in the past.

- Harold MacMillan

topic: Past, Done, Majesty

Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Amputation, Majesty, Calves, King Of Attolia, Attolia

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

- Barbara Mertz

topic: Joy, Church, Majesty

Her Majesty is not a subject.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Funny, Humor, Majesty

The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

- Walt Whitman

source: Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

topic: Past, Majesty, Vacant

The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.

- William Ellery Channing

source: William Ellery Channing (1888). “The Works of William E. Channing”

topic: Miracle, Veils, Majesty

Half-heartedne ss doesn't reach into majesty.

- Rumi

topic: Half, Majesty

swore. “Barabas said you might say that. I’m supposed to tell you this.” Ascanio cleared his throat and produced a remarkably accurate impression of Barabas’s tenor. “Courage, Your Majesty.” “I will kill him.” “The Beast Lord or Barabas?” “Both.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.124, Penguin

topic: Might, Majesty, Beast

Too much excitement, Your Majesty?” I asked. “He was standing too close.” “He was asking about Andrea.” “Too close. I didn’t like it.” Curran wrapped his arm around my shoulders and started walking, steering me away from the group. His Possessive Majesty in all of his glory.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.229, Penguin

topic: Asking, Arms, Majesty

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

- Edward Young

source: Edward Young (1837). “The Complaint and Consolation; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality: To which is Added, The Force of Religion”, p.35

topic: Death, Dying, Majesty

My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1963). “Hamlet”, p.41, CUP Archive

topic: Night, Soul, Majesty, Day Night, Brevity

Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

- Saint Augustine

source: Saint Augustine (2003). “Confessions”, p.21, Penguin UK

topic: Majesty, Praise, Lord

Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1874). “Works”, p.360