Royal Library can mean:
- Royal Library of Alexandria - the renowned ancient library of Alexandria
- Royal Library, Windsor - the royal library of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom
- Danish Royal Library - the national library of Denmark
- Dutch Royal Library - the national library of The Netherlands
- Royal Library of Belgium, the national library in Brussels
- Swedish Royal Library - the national library of Sweden
- Royal Library of Turin - formerly the library of the Kings of Italy
- The former name in English (in French Bibliothèque royale) of the Bibliothèque nationale de France - the national library of France
Famous quotes containing the words royal and/or library:
“This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house
Against the envy of less happier lands;
This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Our civilization has decided ... that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men.... When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)