Quotes by Robert Lacey - Page 1

The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.
Robert Lacey / Historian
Government
British Monarchy
Carter
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It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.
Robert Lacey / Historian
Elites
Fascinated
Groups
Elite
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Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.
Robert Lacey / Historian
Modern
Noise
Pollution
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Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.
Robert Lacey / Historian
Anger
Anger And Fear
States
Violence
Saudi
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My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.
Robert Lacey / Historian
Boys
Cambridge
School
Sunday
University
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What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain or an authoritarian monarchy.
Robert Lacey / Historian
Britain
Monarchy
Reinventing
Royal
Surviving
Authoritarian
Constitutional
Families
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There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks.
Robert Lacey / Historian
Military
Real
Risk
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Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protege but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had.
Robert Lacey / Historian
Arabia
Father
Moon
Saudi Arabia
Son
Always Father Never
Bin
Father Always Never
Founder
Father Son Always
Saudi
Shortsighted
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It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is in fact very nimble on its feet, an institution invested with a great deal more self-interest than the public image would suggest.
Robert Lacey / Historian
Feet
Monarchy
Nimble
Public Image
Self Interest
Great Me Feet
Apparently
Great Deal
Institution
Invested
Suggest
Venerable
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I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.
Robert Lacey / Historian
Arabia
Idyllic
Police
Prayer
Religious
Saudi Arabia
Two
Existing
Saudi
Separate
Universes
Westerner
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