Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.
Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.
I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.
Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.
The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.
I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.
Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian.
Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers. I mention this solely to remind you that linguists are not kidding when they say … that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.
The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch.
Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.
What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service.
Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.
Whatever the occasion, [the Queen] has a face which demonstrably says 'I don't give a royal s**t. '
The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.
On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .