Royalty Quotes

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
I don't say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.
My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.
I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.
If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.
Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.
First feelings are always the most natural.
Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
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