monarch quotes

Edina! Scotia's darling seat, All hail thy palaces and tow'rs, Where once beneath a monarch's feet Sat Legislation's sov'reign pow'rs.

- Robert Burns
  'Address to Edinburgh', stanza1.

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. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

-William Cowper
  Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of  Juan Fernandez'.

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.

-John Dryden
  Of Ben  Jonson.  An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben  Jonson Compared'.

Then Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did, variously, impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scattered his Maker's image through the land.

-John Dryden
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.7^10.  An oblique reference to Charles II, who had no legitimate, but many illegitimate, children.

With ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.

-John Dryden
  Alexander's Feast, l.42^6.

I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  HMS Pinafore, act1.

Everything we hear from Buckingham Palace suggests that [the Queen] issurrounded by stupid, blind, stuffy, self-promoting, rivalrous, gin-drinking courtiers, who haven't realised that a modern constitutional Monarch exists no longer by right but by consent and free will.

- Simon David Hoggart
  Following the death of Diana, Princess of  Wales. In The Guardian, 5 Sep.

The self-worship of the monarch, or of the feudal superior, is matched by the self-worship of the male.

-John Stuart Mill
  The Subjection of  Women, ch.4.

Restless, he rolls about from whore to whore, A merry Monarch, scandalous and poor.

-JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
  Of Charles II.'I' th' Isle of Britain', l.14^15.The poem resulted in a brief period of exile for Rochester.