In fact, the Gospel shows us change comes from the bottom rather than the top, from an old rugged cross rather than a gold royal throne.
It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.
According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees.
I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.
The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.
The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.
When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's going to happen next, the horse is just about the only one who doesn't know I am Royal!
If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.
A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.
Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.
Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.
England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.
On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.
I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years.