The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

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GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
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JUDE WATSON

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Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
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VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS

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FENNEL HUDSON Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
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VICTOR SHAMAS

The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA

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ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS

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WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V

It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
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AUGUSTUS

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN

It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
QUEEN CHRISTINA

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
PRINCESS DIANA

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult period...
PRINCESS DIANA

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is bett...
PRINCESS DIANA

I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just wa...
PRINCESS DIANA

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
PRINCESS DIANA

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feel...
PRINCESS DIANA

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves...
PRINCESS DIANA

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
PRINCESS DIANA

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
PRINCESS DIANA

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and ...
PRINCESS DIANA

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
PRINCESS DIANA

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
PRINCESS DIANA

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven...
PRINCESS DIANA

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
PRINCESS DIANA

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
PRINCESS DIANA

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

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QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the nex...
FREDERICK THE GREAT

No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really...
KATE MIDDLETON

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KATE MIDDLETON

I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing chi...
KATE MIDDLETON

We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.
KATE MIDDLETON

Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to h...
KATE MIDDLETON

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you...
PRINCE WILLIAM

For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.
NORODOM SIHANOUK Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh.
WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across ...
KING GEORGE V I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task...
BEATRIX OF THE NETHERLANDS John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted ever...
NORODOM SIHANOUK

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CLEOPATRA I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.
PRINCE HARRY

I'd rather go by bus.
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FELIPE VI OF SPAIN There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.
FELIPE VI OF SPAIN We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.
FELIPE VI OF SPAIN Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.
FELIPE VI OF SPAIN I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibi...
FELIPE VI OF SPAIN I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil h...
HAMAD BIN KHALIFA AL THANI I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarb...
HAMAD BIN KHALIFA AL THANI

The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the...
HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA

By being friends with all, we are not alone.
HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For tha...
HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not mak...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN

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UMBERTO ECO For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded ...
UMBERTO ECO The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are th...
UMBERTO ECO I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our ba...
UMBERTO ECO And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...
UMBERTO ECO All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are...
UMBERTO ECO But why do some people support [the heretics]?"
"Because it serves their purposes, which conce...
UMBERTO ECO In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a...
UMBERTO ECO There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I...
UMBERTO ECO But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of tho...
UMBERTO ECO لا أعرف شيئا ليس هناك شيئ أعلمه .و إنما بعض الأشياء يحسه...
UMBERTO ECO ...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy...
UMBERTO ECO We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could l...
UMBERTO ECO This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the...
UMBERTO ECO How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man!
UMBERTO ECO Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
UMBERTO ECO A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a nove...
UMBERTO ECO كان رجال العهود الغابرة وسيمي الطلعة طويلي القامة و �...
UMBERTO ECO True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in...
UMBERTO ECO Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same ...
UMBERTO ECO We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
UMBERTO ECO Love is wiser than wisdom.
UMBERTO ECO Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...
UMBERTO ECO Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in ev...
UMBERTO ECO the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most ...
UMBERTO ECO American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100
degrees centigrade in pla...
UMBERTO ECO The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of d...
UMBERTO ECO Priešas turi būti atpažįstamas ir baisus, jis turi būti tavo namuose arba prie durų slenksčio...
UMBERTO ECO

The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

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