Royal Quotes

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. (Sigmund Freud)
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. View quote
Sigmund Freud
There is no royal road to geometry. View quote
Euclid
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills. View quote
O. Henry
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. View quote
Anthony Trollope
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island. View quote
William Blackstone
To execute laws is a royal office to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust. View quote
Edmund Burke
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! View quote
Francis de Sales
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. View quote
Francis Bacon
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that. (Zara Phillips)
When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue. View quote
Anthony Holden
At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science. View quote
Deborah Bull
Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children. View quote
Lord Mountbatten
If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago. View quote
John Lydon
Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf. View quote
Jean Chrétien
Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley. View quote
Howard Carter
The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle. View quote
Francis Parkman
My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones – perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape. View quote
John Constable
Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries. View quote
Julian Schwinger
I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him And will salute him forever. (Morrissey)
The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace. View quote
Kenneth Waltz
Justice, I think, is the tolerable accomodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accomodations concretely. View quote
Learned Hand
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. View quote
Igor Stravinsky