#roy

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation. ↗

— Kate Bush

#dress #fell #front #good #i

We need not destroy the past. It is gone. ↗

— John Cage

#gone #need #past

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#cause #constant #existence #family #fine

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#destroy #directly #fact #however #mankind

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#destroy #him #indifference #kind #life

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#attention span #culture #destroying #mission #press

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them. ↗

— Angela Carter

#aged #back #carried #even #father

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#challenge #cold #cold war #confronted #could

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in. ↗

— Sydney Carter

#certainly #come #fortune #grateful #i

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#around #beautiful #completely #degrading #destroy