I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute
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I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
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The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
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It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction
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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.
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A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute on; but I wish that I could get away And go home to the village of Bruton.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.
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It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
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The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
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The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse
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