royal quotes

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that yeshould shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Peter 2:9.

   There is no'royal road'to geometry.

-Euclid   4c
c.300  BC  Response to Ptolemy I, when asked if there were an easier way to solve theorems. Quotedin Proclus Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elementa, prologue.

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

- Michael Mackintosh Foot
  Speech, House of Commons.

In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.

- Brendan Gill
  Quoted in Laura Rosen Top of the City: NewYork's hidden rooftop world (1990), foreword.

Bad as our urban conditions often are, there isnot a slum in the country which has a third of the infantile death- rate of the royal family in the middle ages.

-J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) Haldane
 Daedalus, or Science and the Future.

We at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head, and you as members, are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament.

-Henry VIII
   Address to a deputation from the House of Commons, 31 Mar.

The nation suspects that the regular ministerial majorities in Parliament are bought, and that the Crown hasmadea purchase oftheHousewiththemoneyofthe people. Hence the ready, tame and servile compliance to every royal verdict issued by Lord North† It is almost universally believed that this debt has been contracted in corrupting the representatives of the people.

- Samuel Whitbread
  House of Commons,16 Apr.

: My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena.

-Victoria Wood
  LILLVICTORIA1989  VictoriaWood, television series. Published in Mens Sana in Thingummy Doodah (1991).

Women leave the Royal Family in only one modewith their heads cleaved from the shoulders.

- Sarah, Duchess of York
  My Story.