#prerogative

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#monarchical #prerogatives #sick

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#artist #first #fool #himself #make

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#direct #feel #had #little #occasion

But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#christ #claim #claiming #does #earth

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#call #calls #christ #church #duties

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#ages #been #eunuch #house #i

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#choice #decisions #ethical #firmly #freedom

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#friends #great #his #laughs #loses