Quotes About The British Monarchy

#1. The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

Robert Lacey

#2. Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution perhaps the first modern political institution.

Adam Gopnik

#3. There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

Charles James Fox

#4. When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

Damien Hirst

#5. The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president.

Mark Helprin

#6. Among many, many others, the following things were definitely not interesting: the pupillary sphincter, mitosis, baroque architecture, jokes that have physics equations as punch lines, the British monarchy, Russian grammar, and the significant role that salt has played in human history.

John Green

#7. It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is in fact very nimble on its feet, an institution invested with a great deal more self-interest than the public image would suggest.

Robert Lacey

#8. I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#9. I'm a Raider. Die hard Raider.

Art Shell

#10. I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.

Asafa Powell

#11. Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

Friedrich Schiller

#12. The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.

Morrissey

#13. No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country.

Daniel Radcliffe

#14. Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.

Geoff Mulgan

#15. If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Elizabeth I

#16. The American head of state grew up with a mother on food stamps. The British head of state grew up with a mother on postage stamps. Is that a contrast that fills you with pride?

Johann Hari

#17. I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.

Johann Hari

#18. I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest.

Ken Loach

#19. The more awake you are, the less there is of you here. At the very deepest level of Presence, you have disappeared and only God is.

Leonard Jacobson

#20. Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of Walter Bagehot. He stresses the organic development of the British constitution, prefers evolution to revolution, and thinks stability is better than strife.

David Cannadine

#21. Life is an illusion of the reality which we want or wish

Saurabh Mathur

#22. I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.

Helen Mirren

#23. British monarchy exists not to exercise power but to keep other people from having the power.

Ketevan Gogelia

#24. In other words, the most ardent republicans since the fall of Rome were asking their king to help them prevail over the representative legislature of the world's oldest constitutional monarchy, the great symbol and protector of British freedom. From

Sarah Vowell

#25. Absolute monarchy, ... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

David Hume

#26. The Monarchy ... is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment

Kingsley Martin

#27. I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#28. The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

Johann Hari

#29. Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge