Borgia Quotes

#1. (About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers to all the great geniuses of his time, and to the heroes of antiquity, and of which he finds the life and action make a good example for those that fortune favors.

Frederick The Great

#2. Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.

Rita Mae Brown

#3. A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. Not wise, perhaps, to be rude to the Pope's favorite son, but my viper tongue still required a fool now and then on which to exercise its edges, and Juan Borgia served admirably in place of drunken innkeepers and tavern cheats.

Kate Quinn

#5. I was born with a stain. A mark. Like the mark of Cain. But is the mark of my father, my family. The mark of Borgia. I have tried to be other than I am. And I have failed. And If I have failed you in the process, I am truly sorry.

Cesare Borgia

#6. St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet all regard for what others will say of him. O my God, why do we not ask what Jesus Christ or his holy mother will think of our conduct?

Alphonsus Liguori

#7. do they not tell us more of the real spirit of the Italian Renaissance, of the dream of Savonarola and of the sin of Borgia, than all the brawling boors and cooking women of Dutch art can teach us of the real spirit of the history of Holland?

Oscar Wilde

#8. I'm not -
Lady Macbeth
Lucrezia Borgia
Catherine the Great. I am
- a woman doing what she has to do. I am
- the woman you made me.
Elena is at war.

Don Winslow

#9. Don't be disgusting.
Don't dare me. I majored in disgusting at Gulag Community College. Lucrezia Borgia taught cooking, and Madame Defarge taught knitting. Emperor Nero taught violin and also led the cheerleading squad. I skipped all my classes and failed with distinction.

Gregory Maguire

#10. One enemy at the time.

Sarah Dunant

#11. For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#12. My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.

Cesare Borgia

#13. The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.

Jack Bowman

#14. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. The constellations this year seem unfavourable to rebels.

Cesare Borgia

#16. Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.

Cesare Borgia

#17. Young lovers are always doomed.

Lucrezia Borgia

#18. I thought your friend Ron might like this owl, as it's my fault he no longer has a rat.

J.K. Rowling

#19. To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

Will Durant

#20. Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.

Cesare Borgia

#21. Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts.

Cesare Borgia

#22. I'm more than a few neurons shy of a synapse right now, and it feels absolutely fan-fucking-tastic.

Nenia Campbell

#23. 1. Shadow of Legends

G. Norman Lippert

#24. I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared.

Cesare Borgia

#25. I am deeply saddened for the people of Ferguson who woke up to see parts of their community in ruins. No one should have to live like this; no one deserves this. We must do better, and we will.

Jay Nixon

#26. What Eden have they torn you from?

Cesare Borgia

#27. I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

Martin Luther

#28. He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear.

Lilith Saintcrow

#29. In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit.
She knew that there was something better than paradise

Cesare Borgia

#30. I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me!

Cesare Borgia