The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages? — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“With my pen I will rule the world. You'll see, they'll call me the scourge of princes.” — Hella S. Haasse Copy Share Image
I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind …. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Princes of Troy, on our last night together, Queen Helen and I salute you! — Menelaus Copy Share Image
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes. — Pindar Copy Share Image
They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Princes are not supposed to be handsome! They’re sniveling, stupid, repulsive creatures! This one … this … How unfair of him to… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Those who by valorous ways become princes...acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.” — W.K. Marriott Copy Share Image
The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
“Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind from a vain persuasion, that those who have no dependence, except on their favour,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Thieves are not so bad, and killing wears all possible costumes. There is no death, no murder that is better than any… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“ Princes & Kings Isn't it strange how princes and kings, and clowns that caper in sawdust rings, and common people, like… — R. Lee Sharpe Copy Share Image
“Instigated by princes equally ambitious and less sagacious and more unscrupulous than he was, the people of India were persuaded that they… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“One day he lost sight of his retinue in a great forest. These forests are very useful in delivering princes from their… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Princes are fighters or administrators. Neither of those things do much to spread joy in the world. Whores, concubines, and catamites, on… — Jill Knowles Copy Share Image
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“They may hail you like an Angel. They may claim you are the world's prince of princes. They may lift you with… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“I don’t think you’ve ever realized how strong, how necessary the bond is between Warlord Princes and Queens. We need you to… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
... I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“A Prince, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Without doubt, princes become great when they overcome difficulties and hurdles put in their path. When fortune wants to advance a new… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and for superfluities which do not… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“This is the fairytale of my life, the mythology of my existence, and, as I only have one story to tell, there… — James Campion Conway Copy Share Image
“Generals trump Majors," Ursan said. "True, but do princes trump generals?" "I attacked him." "Ryne's not the type to hold a grudge."… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
