King Edward Viii Quotes

#1. In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

Madonna Ciccone

#2. One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.

Bojana Novakovic

#3. You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.

Edward VIII

#4. I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.

Russell Pearce

#5. The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

Jean Giraudoux

#6. Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Chetan Bhagat

#7. You made a lifetime commitment before God and the world. A silly thing like a divorce doesn't reverse it.

Kellyn Roth

#8. W-what are you?"
Selena looked down at her rival. "What you should have been and never were. The Queen of the Witches.

Anne Bishop

#9. People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.

Carl Sandburg

#10. I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.

Edward VIII

#11. You either choose to help others, or you don't choose to help others ... THERE IS NO IN-BETWEEN!

Martin R. Lemieux

#12. Queen Jane Seymour's epitaph, inscribed in Latin, translated roughly to:
Here lies Jane, a phoenix
Who died in giving another phoenix birth,
Let her be mourned, for birds like these
Are rare indeed.

Leslie Carroll

#13. When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. The Good News is the gospel of Truth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Life is composed of lines of light, fibers of energy, pulsing, still, pure being.

Frederick Lenz

#16. I like going there for golf. America is one vast golf course today.

King Edward VIII

#17. I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same.

King Edward VIII

#18. I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.

Geoffrey Rush

#19. But...was he flirting?
Hmm.
Not sure what I thought of that. A nice office flirt did make the day go faster, but Adam was my boss, not to mention an annoying one, and I was nothing if not professional.
Snort. Yeah. That made me laugh too.

Camilla Chafer

#20. As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#21. When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

King Edward VIII

#22. Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

Publilius Syrus

#23. I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

Edward VIII