Royalty Quotes

That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful.

Sometimes you have to keep things very close to your own chest in your life, or this life.

I think it is nice to get older.

I might have some Danish lessons sometimes.

I don't think about my physical age.

I am, more than anything else, happy.

At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

Naturally, I do things my own way but I'm certainly influenced by my mother's way of doing things.

My mother would do anything for her children. And that's how I am too.

I am happy to continue with my journey through time.

There's not as many people as one would think you can be completely open with.

I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.

To be happy is, I guess, the most important thing in life.

Time becomes more precious when you have children.

We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.

There is something endearing about people who give themselves up completely to their faith. But there is likewise something frightening about such a totality, which also is a feature of Islam.

There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the Danish Golden Age painters, the early 19th century painters, the way they could paint a landscape - absolutely beautiful.'

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.

One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.

I will remain on the throne until I fall off.

I smoke wherever there's an ashtray.

I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.

I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.