Quotes About Edward Viii

#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. 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

#3. closed my eyes tight then opened them and asked softly, "You love me?" "Baby, you were made for me.

Kristen Ashley

#4. I'm a thoroughly respectable woman."
"You don't kiss like one.

Ruthie Knox

#5. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#6. Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors ... Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Andrew Carnegie

#7. another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.

Craig Brown

#8. I've got a Ferrari. VROOM! I do 104 from the garage to the front door.

Bill Cosby

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

Edward VIII

#10. Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

Edward VIII

#11. Deep blackness waits outside;
a veiled inferno it attempts to hide.
We see no more than dark clouds growing,
but set inside, a fire is glowing.

Craig Froman

#12. I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.

Garth Brooks

#13. The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Edward VIII

#14. If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action.

Emil Cioran

#15. 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

#16. When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

Edward VIII

#17. I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

Linda Ronstadt

#18. 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

#19. I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

Samantha Morton

#20. These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.

Edward VIII

#21. I find myself comparing the feel and smell of brand-new rain to his kiss. His kiss is much, much better.

Colleen Hoover

#22. His [Lord Peter's] long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#23. Boy, as far as you're concerned, my word is law, and you're just a bitch without a number. Now, you keep on with this conversation, and I'll have to hurt your sensitive little feelin's. Fuckin' yuppie.

Alex Morgan

#24. If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?

Ernie J Zelinski

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

King Edward VIII

#26. 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

#27. Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

Edward VIII

#28. A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight.

Edward VIII

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

King Edward VIII

#30. I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days.

Edward VIII

#31. Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

Michael Moorcock

#32. 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