Princes Quotes

168 quotes by 125 authors

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath… — Oliver Goldsmith
Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold… — John Foxe
It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions… — Winston Churchill
The Tiger's Curse Series has everything my heart could desire in a fantasy: exotic locations, two dashing princes, good vs. evil, the promise of danger… — Bree Despain
To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting… — Thomas Carlyle
One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. — Beilby Porteus
What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious… — Samuel Adams
Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned. — John Evelyn
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth — Martin Luther
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
Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously… — Walter Raleigh
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others. — Woodrow Wilson
....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease. — Niccolo Machiavelli
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes. — Michel de Montaigne
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never. — Charles Caleb Colton
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and… — Leonardo da Vinci
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named. — John Milton

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