British Monarch Quotes

#1. Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.

Kate Williams

#2. From the consumer point of view, there may be questions about whether you'll have to be an AOL subscriber to get Time magazine, ... That combination of media with the access is one through which you may be able to block access to your competitors' subscribers.

Charlene Li

#3. I don't want to tame him. I fell in love with him first.

Airicka Phoenix

#4. Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Ilana Mercer

#5. At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#7. No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

Tony Benn

#8. The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

Kate Williams

#9. Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Val McDermid

#10. Man is everywhere still in chains.

Herbert Read

#11. Just like our eyes, our hearts have a way of adjusting to the dark.

Adam Stanley