justice ⦠For who can denie but it is repugneth to nature, that the blind shall be appointed to leade and conduct such as do see? That the weake, the sicke, and impotent persons shall norishe and kepe the hole and the strong? And finallie, that the foolishe, madde, and phrenetike shall governe the discrete, and give counsel to such as be of sober mind? Of such be all women, compared unto man in bearing of authoritie. For their sight in civile regiment is but blindness; their strength, weakness; their counsel, foolishness; and judgement, phrensie, if it be rightlie considered â¦
John Knox, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
The most notorious whore in all the world.
Peter Wentworth on Mary Queen of Scots
Most gracious Queen we thee implore
To Go Away and sin no more
But if that effort be too great
To go away, at any rate.
Anonymous epigram on Queen Caroline, wife of George IV
The bloom of her ugliness is going off.
Colonel Disbrowe on the ageing looks of Queen Charlotte
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness goes clean to the bone.
Dorothy Parker
Anne ⦠when in good humour, was meekly stupid, and when in bad humour, was sulkily stupid.
Thomas Babington Macaulay on Queen Anne
One of the smallest people ever set in a great place.
Walter Bagehot on Queen Anne
The wisest fool in Christendom.
Henri IV of France on James I of England. Attrib.
One of the moral monsters of history.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Charles II
Henry VIII perhaps approached as nearly to the ideal standard of perfect wickedness as the infirmities of human nature will allow.
Sir James Mackintosh
A blot of blood and grease upon the History of England.
Charles Dickens on Henry VIII
Here lies our mutton-loving King
Whose word no man relies on
Who never said a foolish thing
And never did a wise one.
John Wilmot on Charles II
This is very true: for my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
Charles II
Throughout the greater part of his life, George III was a kind of consecrated obstruction.
Walter Bagehot
The Radical MP John Wilkes at a formal dinner in the presence of the Prince of Wales proposed a toast to the Kingâs health, a thing which no one had ever known him do before. The Prince asked Wilkes how long he had shown such concern for his fatherâs well-being. Wilkes replied: âSince I had the pleasure of your Royal Highnessâs acquaintance.â
John Wilkes on the Prince of Wales, later on George IV
The two most powerful men in Russia are Tsar Nicholas II and the last person who spoke to him.
Anonymous
Never was a person less mourned by his fellow men than the late King ⦠if ever George IV had a friend, a true friend, in any social class, so we may claim that his or her name never reached our ears.
The Times, commentary
Whoâs your fat friend?
George âBeauâ Brummell to Beau Nash, who had introduced the Prince Regent
Queen Victoria was like a great paperweight that for half a century sat upon menâs minds, and when she was removed their ideas began to blow all over the place haphazardly.
H.G. Wells
Strip your Louis Quatorze of his king gear and there is left nothing but a poor forked radish with a head fantastically carved.
Thomas Carlyle on Louis XIV
Nowadays, a parlour maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne, would be classed as mentally defective.
George Bernard Shaw on Queen Victoria
Very sorry canât come. Lie follows by post.
Telegram from Charles Beresford to the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, following a dinner invitation at short notice
No thank you; I only smoke on special occasions.
Anonymous commoner, confused and overawed, on being asked by George VI at a banquet whether he cared for a cigar
Thank God for the Civil Service.
George VI on Labourâs 1945 election victory
Born into the ranks of the working class, the new Kingâs most likely fate would have been that of a street-corner
John Knox, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
The most notorious whore in all the world.
Peter Wentworth on Mary Queen of Scots
Most gracious Queen we thee implore
To Go Away and sin no more
But if that effort be too great
To go away, at any rate.
Anonymous epigram on Queen Caroline, wife of George IV
The bloom of her ugliness is going off.
Colonel Disbrowe on the ageing looks of Queen Charlotte
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness goes clean to the bone.
Dorothy Parker
Anne ⦠when in good humour, was meekly stupid, and when in bad humour, was sulkily stupid.
Thomas Babington Macaulay on Queen Anne
One of the smallest people ever set in a great place.
Walter Bagehot on Queen Anne
The wisest fool in Christendom.
Henri IV of France on James I of England. Attrib.
One of the moral monsters of history.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Charles II
Henry VIII perhaps approached as nearly to the ideal standard of perfect wickedness as the infirmities of human nature will allow.
Sir James Mackintosh
A blot of blood and grease upon the History of England.
Charles Dickens on Henry VIII
Here lies our mutton-loving King
Whose word no man relies on
Who never said a foolish thing
And never did a wise one.
John Wilmot on Charles II
This is very true: for my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
Charles II
Throughout the greater part of his life, George III was a kind of consecrated obstruction.
Walter Bagehot
The Radical MP John Wilkes at a formal dinner in the presence of the Prince of Wales proposed a toast to the Kingâs health, a thing which no one had ever known him do before. The Prince asked Wilkes how long he had shown such concern for his fatherâs well-being. Wilkes replied: âSince I had the pleasure of your Royal Highnessâs acquaintance.â
John Wilkes on the Prince of Wales, later on George IV
The two most powerful men in Russia are Tsar Nicholas II and the last person who spoke to him.
Anonymous
Never was a person less mourned by his fellow men than the late King ⦠if ever George IV had a friend, a true friend, in any social class, so we may claim that his or her name never reached our ears.
The Times, commentary
Whoâs your fat friend?
George âBeauâ Brummell to Beau Nash, who had introduced the Prince Regent
Queen Victoria was like a great paperweight that for half a century sat upon menâs minds, and when she was removed their ideas began to blow all over the place haphazardly.
H.G. Wells
Strip your Louis Quatorze of his king gear and there is left nothing but a poor forked radish with a head fantastically carved.
Thomas Carlyle on Louis XIV
Nowadays, a parlour maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne, would be classed as mentally defective.
George Bernard Shaw on Queen Victoria
Very sorry canât come. Lie follows by post.
Telegram from Charles Beresford to the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, following a dinner invitation at short notice
No thank you; I only smoke on special occasions.
Anonymous commoner, confused and overawed, on being asked by George VI at a banquet whether he cared for a cigar
Thank God for the Civil Service.
George VI on Labourâs 1945 election victory
Born into the ranks of the working class, the new Kingâs most likely fate would have been that of a street-corner
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