
“You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
"The Importance of Humour in Tragedy: Presidential Address Delivered at the Birmingham Midland Institute, 1915", Nothing Matters, and Other Stories (1917) p. 207.
“You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Vingt ans après (Twenty Years After) (1845)
Context: Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God. When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything.
Ain-i-Akbari by Abul Fazl. trans. by H. Blochmann, quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
“If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.”
This Is Your Life television show
“The old often envy the young; when they do, they are apt to treat them cruelly.”
1920s, What I Believe (1925)
“People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.”
Source: Giovanni's Room
Source: On including animal deaths in her work as symbolism in “An Interview with Yiyun Li” https://brickmag.com/an-interview-with-yiyun-li/ in Brick Magazine (2019 Feb 19)
Quand la religion et la royauté seront abattues, le peuple en viendra aux grands, après les grands il s'en prendra aux riches.
Source: About Catherine de' Medici (1842), Part II: The Ruggieri's Secret, Ch. V: The Alchemists.