(23 quotes found)
“The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.”
Benjamin Franklin
“You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage.”
William Shakespeare
“It is not the statesman, the warrior, or the monarch that survives, but the despised poet, whom they may have fed with their crumbs, and to whom they owe that they are now or have a name”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“A morsel for a monarch.”
“He's made himself a monarch.”
Stephen Silvia
“Sixty percent of all the monarchs caught and tagged at Milford Point were male, oddly enough. And they've tagged over 400 butterflies up to this point.”
Scott Tucker
“He has two choices. One, come to an understanding with political parties accepting the role of a constitutional monarch. Two, go totally repressive as a dictator and risk the monarchy's future in the long run.”
Yubaraj Ghimire
“King Sihanouk was an absolute monarch in the 1940s and 1950s. No one could publicly disagree with anything the king said. In the throne room, even ministers had to approach the king on their hands and knees because everyone's head had to be below the level of the king's feet.”
Philip Short
“[On the exterior], there's a picture of the Kansas City Monarchs,”
Jim Ferguson
