Books Quote by Matthew Tobin Anderson

“In the old stories, despite the impossibility of the incidents, the interest is always real and human.  The princes and princesses fall in love…

— Andrew Lang

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

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

— Edmond de Goncourt

“Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes." -…

— Emily Mah Tippetts

“Some men,' they said, 'are born princes, and some raise themselves by their talents to be kings among men.”

— Amy Steedman

“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

“Princes know themselves to be princes, and are not snobs; besides, they believe themselves to be so far above everything that is not of…

— Marcel Proust

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the…

— Mark Twain

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

— Francis Bacon

I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they…

— William Hazlitt

I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war - he's got…

— Raymond E. Feist