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
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
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
“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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
