To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life. — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise. — Saadi Copy Share Image
The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These courtiers of applause deny themselves things convenient to flaunt it out; being frequently enough vain to immolate their own desires to… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
To serve Mary and to be her courtier is the greatest honor we can possibly possess; for to serve the Queen of… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern… — Carleton S. Coon Copy Share Image
“Some say the favor of the Grand Steward is double-edged. They are wrong. It is all edge, and everybody knows it, and… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us,… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
It is depressing but not shocking to witness the liberal intelligentsia embrace Ari Shavit so enthusiastically. Shavit is someone who is as… — Max Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom.… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come… — Stephen Birmingham Copy Share Image
In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Cardan had grown up in the palace, a wild thing to be cosseted by courtiers and scowled at by the High King.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Courtiers were supposed to sound musical when they spoke, their laughter like a harp chord and their sneezes like notes on a… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be… — Charles I of England Copy Share Image
