Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should l

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. – Benjamin Disraeli

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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. – James Fenimore Cooper

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better. – Elizabeth I

I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all. – Edward VII

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. – Marcel Proust

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