Concubines Quote by Jill Knowles

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

— Edmond de Goncourt

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to…

— Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

— Francis Bacon

“Princes should devolve on others those matters that entail responsibility, and reserve to themselves those that relate to grace and favour.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind from a vain persuasion, that those who have no dependence, except on their favour, will have…

— Edward Gibbon

“There are better things than princes.”

— Leigh Bardugo

Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world…

— William Shakespeare

There are so many girls, and so few princes.

— Arthur Linda

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

— Anonymous

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love…

— Stendhal

“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.…

— John Calvin

“A Prince, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself…

— Niccolò Machiavelli