Captive-prince Quote by S.U. Pacat

“Lord Touars said, ‘You will come with us willingly, or you will come after we have subjugated your men. You have a choice.’ Laurent”

— C.S. Pacat

“Did you think,’ said Laurent, ‘if you threw down a challenge to fight, I would not accept it?’ The Patran troops filled the eastern…

— C.S. Pacat

“Who scorns his own life is lord of yours.”

— Seneca

“I have been in several provinces of that kingdom. In some, one half of the people are fools and madmen; in some, they are…

— Voltaire

“can't withstand thee, then, old man. Not reasoning; not remonstrance; not entreaty wilt thou hearken to; all this thou scornest. Flat obedience to thy…

— Herman Melville

“I lack the Lord’s own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.”

— Anthony de Mello

“Nothing is forbidden in the world where you reign,' his eyes said. 'There’s only longing for those who are not here, for those few…

— Vadim Babenko

“I would dare much, sir, against a man who seemingly does not understand boundaries. You must ask a woman if you may enter her…

— Emma Hamm

“And so you, like the others, would play your brains against mine. You would help these men to hunt me and frustrate me in…

— Bram Stoker

“No, I do know that I was born To age, misfortune, sickness, grief: But I will bear these with that scorn As shall not…

— Ben Jonson

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power…

— Edward Everett Hale