Kings are pretty cheap these days.

Ernest Bevin, 10 September 1946

Above all things our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it … Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic.

Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution

Behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

Job, 31:35