Majesty
Majesty is an English word derived ultimately from the Latin maiestas, meaning greatness. The title ranks above Royal Highness.
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Famous quotes containing the word majesty:
“These are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people, claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of mans power in the world.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535475 B.C.)
“The majesty and riches of the mind,
But dwell in darkness; for your God is blind.”
—George Chapman (1559?1634)
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