Majesty quotes

Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words imparts majesty to a prince, provided histhoughts and orders are understood, so the presence of only the strictly necessary numbers of bodies confers dignity on a picture.

- Leon Battista Alberti
  On Painting (translated by Cecil Grayson).

Saying,We will fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men: for as his majesty is, so is his mercy.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus 2:18.

God, whoat sundry times and indiversmannersspake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the worlds: Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Hebrews1:1^3.

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead,Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^3  On the death of  Jo. Bleak House, ch.47.

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last: The force of Nature could no farther go; To make a third, she joined the former two.

-John Dryden
  'Epigram on Milton', engraved on the frontispiece to the 1688 edition of Paradise Lost. The three poets are Homer, Virgil and Milton.

   In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

Congratulations and bouquets keep pouring in, as if the role of sexuality had been suddenly recognised by His Majesty, the interpretation of dreams confirmed by the Council of Ministers, and the necessity of the psychoanalytic therapy of hysteria carried by a two- thirds majority in Parliament.

- Sigmund Freud
  Letter to Wilhelm Fliess,11 Mar, describing the public enthusiasm in Vienna that greeted his appointment to an associate professorship at the age of 45.

It is said to be hard on His Majesty's Ministers to raise objections to this proposition. For my part, I think it no more hard on His Majesty's Opposition to compel them to take this course.

-John Cam, 1st Baron Broughton Hobhouse
  House of Commons, 27  Apr. This is thefirst recordeduse of the term'His Majesty's Opposition'.

Sir, I now pay you this exorbitant charge, but I must ask you to explain to Her Majesty that she must not in future look upon me as a source of income.

- Charles Kemble
When reluctantly obliged to pay overdue income tax. Attributed.

It appears toYour Majesty's slave that we are very deficient in means, and have not the shells and rockets used by the barbarians.We must, therefore, adopt other methods to stop them, which will be easy, as they have opened negotiations.

-Kishen   fl.c.1840
  Report, Mar, to the Chinese Emperor during the1st Opium War,1839^42.

   May it please your Majesty, I have neither eye to see nor tonguetospeak inthisplace, but asthis Houseispleased to direct me, whose servant I am.

-William Lenthall
   To Charles I, on his arrival in the Chamber to arrest five Members, House of Commons, 4  Jan.

Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honor clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all.

-John Milton
  Of  Adam and Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.288^90.

His Majesty's dominions, on which the sun never sets.

- Christopher pseudonym of  JohnWilson North
  'Noctes  Ambrosianae', no.42, in Blackwood's Magazine, Apr.

His Majesty entered the House, and as he passed up towards the Chair, he cast his eye on the right hand near Ruskin the Bar of the House where Mr Pym used to sit; but His Majesty, not seeing him there (knowing him well) went up to the Chair and said,'By your leave, Mr Speaker, I must borrow your chair a little.'

-John Rushworth
  His account of the attempt made by Charles I to arrest five Members of Parliament on 4 Jan.

It is alleged indeed, that the high heels are most agreeable to our ancient constitution: but however this be, his Majesty hath determined tomake use of only low heels in the administration of the government.

-Jonathan Swift
  Gulliver'sTravels,'A Voyage to Lilliput', ch.4.

Earth hath not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!

-William Wordsworth
  Of London.'Composed uponWestminster Bridge', complete poem. (Published1807).