British Monarchy

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or monarchy:

    The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
    Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

    Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)