#royalty

They spoke as though these Princes are so remote from life as we know it that the smallest sign of humanity, the mere fact even that they communicated by means of speech was worth noting and proclaiming. ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#hero-worship #royalty #communication

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#cheques #few #income #now #only

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#completely #disappear #either #going #royalty

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#god #higher #leave #one thing #religion

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #america #american #american writer #ancestry

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#embarrassed #fantasies #figures #film #film stars

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. ↗

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#god #minor #people #royalty #too

Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#kings #louis-xiv #royalty #versailles #imagination

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#eugenides #love #marriage #royalty #love

If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#autonomy #bahrain #iraq #iraq-war #kurdish-people