Bread Quote by Phyllis McGinley

To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them with impunity

— François De La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francis Bacon

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Anonymous

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

“Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.”

— Jonathan Swift

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

— William Shakespeare

We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.

— PZ Myers

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

— Edmond de Goncourt

“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

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

— Stanisław I Leszczyński