"Baelor the Blessed was holy and pious. He built this sept. He also named a six-year-old boy High Septon because he thought the boy could work miracles. He ended up fasting himself into an early grave because food was of this world and this world was sinful."
"Orys the First was just; everyone applauded his reforms, nobles and commoners alike, but he wasn't just for long. He was murdered in his sleep after less than a year by his own brother. Was that truly just of him, to abandon his subjects to an evil that he was too gullible to recognize?"
"King Robert was strong; he won the rebellion and crushed the Targaryen dynasty. And he attended three Small Council meetings in seventeen years of ruling, and he spent his time whoring, hunting, and drinking until the last two killed him. So, we have a man who starves himself to death, a man who lets his own brother murder him, and a man who thinks winning and ruling are the same thing."
—Tywin Lannister, Game of Thrones
"We've had vicious kings and we've had idiot kings, but I don't know if we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a king!"
"It's as if the dictum 'power corrupts' heads to the gonads."
—Troper Camacan
"Centuries of inbreeding is making the aristocracy (taps the side of his head) stupid."
— Aramis, The Musketeers, "The Return"
"The royal bloodline isn't what it used to be. Too much intermarrying, I suppose. I always say: 'When you reduce a family tree to a family bush, you just can't hide as much beneath it.'"
— Minister Milo Virini to Londo Mollari, Babylon 5.
Princess Anne: I'm lobotomizing you!
Kate: Lobotomizing?!
Princess Anne: Oh, I'm fully licensed. We were doing so many in the royal family, it just worked out cheaper.
Kate: Lobotomizing?!
Princess Anne: Oh, I'm fully licensed. We were doing so many in the royal family, it just worked out cheaper.
"Seriously. There must be a law that when you pull this kind of shit you're out. Off the throne. You're the new Duke of Get Fucked."
— "The Pig Bride", Oglaf
