Royalty Quotes

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.

Let justice be done, though the world perish.

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.

My role as king will be much like my mum's as queen, so long as I remain in tune with the people.

My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

I would just like to have children. Lots of children.

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

I don't have to make my own bed.

I am just an apprentice.

Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense.

Greenland is a wonderful country.

Going to the Arctic was immense for me.

Father of four. I like the sound of that.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.

If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.