Courtiers Quotes
27 Courtiers quotes by 27 unique authors
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It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
— Samuel Johnson
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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
— Honore de Balzac
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Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the…
— Augustin Thierry
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The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful…
— Joseph Conrad
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Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The…
— Chris Hedges
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Peoples, be peoples and others will respect you. Be courtiers and others will scorn you and it will be well deserved.
— Unknown Author
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In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but…
— Owen Barfield
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Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the…
— Hermann Hesse
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Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two…
— King Edward VIII
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The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
— Henry David Thoreau
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If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.
— Saadi
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And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and…
— David Brewster
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Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.
— Dave Hickey
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good.…
— Henry Fielding
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Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.
— Pope Francis
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the…
— Walter Lippmann
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The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection…
— John Ralston Saul
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Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along…
— Denise Levertov
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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 the soldier's which…
— William Shakespeare
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The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the…
— Philippa Gregory
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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections,…
— Voltaire
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The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki.
— Robert Gottlieb
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