The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid?an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at thetop, and? It isinvisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, asgood a material as any tobuild a life from.
The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall.
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is very difficult to hang because it is so large and the quality is very varied. There are 1,200 works, an almost impossible number, some are interesting and some are not.
The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination. . . Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.
Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.
Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].
Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.
What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.
Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.
Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.
I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium.
God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!
May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.
the Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males.