11 Quotes filtered by Monarchy
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
Stanley Baldwin
On the abdication crisis.
Category: Monarchy
The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.
Ramsay MacDonald 13/07/1936
On the abdication of Edward VIII
It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.
Tony Benn 31/12/1965
Category: Monarchy
I can quite understand why people were put in the Tower in the old days and I would quite gladly put Mrs Simpson there if I could.
Stanley Baldwin
On Wallis Simpson
Category: Monarchy
If he that attempteth to depose his sovereign be killed or punished by him for such an attempt, he is author of his own punishment.
Thomas Hobbes
Category: Monarchy
I desire their liberty and freedom, as much as anybody: but I must tell you, that their liberty and freedom consists in having the Government of those laws, but which their life and their goods may be most their own; 'tis not for having share in government, Sirs, that is nothing pertaining to them. A subject and a sovereign are clean different things.
King Charles I 30/01/1649
Category: Legislation, Monarchy
Sire, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, but as this House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and I humbly beg Your Majesty's pardon that I cannot givr any other answer than this to what Your Majesty is pleased to demand of me.
William Lenthall 04/01/1662
Replying to King Charles I who had entered the House of Commons to arrest 5 MPs to charge them with treason
Category: Monarchy, Speakers of the House of Commons
I never deny, I never contradict, I sometimes forget.
Benjamin Disraeli
On dealing with Queen Victoria
Category: Monarchy
The Queen is all right and Princess Diana is a goddess, but most of the rest are so awful it is quite a work to describe their vulgarity.
Alan Clark
Category: Monarchy
