quotes about Royalty
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Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues
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I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
-- Ba JinSource : "Chinese Modern Literature Laureate Expected to Become Centenarian". en.people.cn. August 13, 2001.
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I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.
-- Benny Hinn -
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
-- Bette Midler -
Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
-- Camryn Manheim -
To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]
-- Cardinal Richelieu -
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Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
-- Chris Patten -
I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.
-- Daisy AshfordSource : Daisy Ashford (2016). “The Young Visiters”, p.20, Daisy Ashford
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And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.
-- Darl McBride -
Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.
-- David Cronenberg -
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If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.
-- Douglas Brinkley -
Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
-- Douglas Coupland -
The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.
-- Elgin Groseclose -
Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
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The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
-- Frank Ocean -
A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.
-- George Eliot -
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.
-- Glenn GreenwaldSource : Glenn Greenwald (2007). “A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency”, p.119, Crown
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To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
-- Herbert Beerbohm TreeSource : Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1916). “Nothing Matters, and Other Stories”
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The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.
-- Homer -
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]
-- Horace -
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How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.
-- Horace Walpole -
Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.
-- John AgarSource : "Fictional character: Dr. Roger Bentley". "The Mole People", www.imdb.com. 1956.
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Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
-- John Perry Barlow -
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That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
-- Karl Kraus -
The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.
-- Martin Bashir -
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
-- Nancy Mitford -
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Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.
-- Oliver Cromwell -
It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]
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Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
-- Philip Treacy -
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[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.
-- Queen Elizabeth II -
My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.
-- Robert H. Schuller -
Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.
-- Robert Runcie -
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There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.
-- Sarah Moore GrimkeSource : Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.59
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If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer.
-- Stephen Colbert -
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Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home?
-- Tony Evans -
Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.
-- Vine Deloria Jr.Source : Vine Deloria,Jr. (1971). “Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”
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I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
-- William Cowper -
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
-- Fetty Wap -
Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.
-- Bill JohnsonSource : Bill Johnson (2010). “Dreaming with God: Co-Laboring with God for Cultural Transformation”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com
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...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones
-- Carleton S. Coon -
It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.
-- Christina, Queen of SwedenSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.
-- Christina, Queen of SwedenSource : Christina (Queen of Sweden) (1753). “The Works of Christina Queen of Sweden: Containing Maxims and Sentences in Twelve Centuries, and Reflections on the Life and Actions of Alexander the Great”, p.98
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I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty!
-- Scott Disick