Top 100 Quotes About Princes
#1. Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights.
Gloria Allred
#2. Nothing in this world was ever certain. Princes could become as frightening as ogres. Princesses could become villains. Best friends could become enemies.
Soman Chainani
#3. When princes flee battle, and knights turn free-lance, and barons rob pilgrims, what value has honor?"
"Why, all the more, seeing how rare it has become.
Michael Flynn
#4. The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism ... The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.
Karl Marx
#5. Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers' daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.
Patrick Ness
#6. To me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel as thought I'm a shining prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want can be ours. Anything.
Tupac Shakur
#7. Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Stanislaw Leszczynski
#8. Though the waves and the sea and the anger of princes are roused against me, they are less to me than a spider's web.
John Chrysostom
#9. We're all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It's never too late, we're never too old to rock the world and contribute! Reaching for intimacy in all relationships? Delicious.
Pamela Taeuffer
#10. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But you shall shine more bright in these contents / Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.
John Green
#11. Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.
John Foxe
#12. Apparently, the princes had found the only four women in the universes who didn't dream of being royal, rich and adored by their husbands.
Michelle M. Pillow
#13. Those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#14. After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'
Mohamed El-Erian
#15. One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
Patrick Stewart
#16. Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.
James Buchan
#17. I do believe everyone in Fairyland-Below is royalty!" September exclaimed. "Queens and Princes and Vicereines and Emperors - it's like visiting Europe!
Catherynne M Valente
#18. Grace will lift you from the dung hill to access the doors of Princes.
Abbey Adenigba
#19. If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficulties; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles.
Elizabeth I
#20. Edinburgh suited Ann; she liked the tall, dignified buildings of grey stone, the short days that sank into street-lamped evenings at five o'clock, and the dual personality of the city's main street, which on one side had glittering shops and on the other the green sweep of Princes Street Gardens.
Maggie O'Farrell
#21. We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
PZ Myers
#22. Those who by valorous ways become princes ... acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.
W.K. Marriott
#23. This thing wants to spread, Henry. It wants to get bad enough - " " - to attract a Prince," I finished grimly. "Some opportunistic son of a bitch out to nail a Princess for the sake of a payoff. I hate Princes. The goddamn things are worse than rats.
Seanan McGuire
#24. Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Alexander Pope
#25. Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#27. The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to restrict the right to print books.
Vint Cerf
#28. Cinderella time?' You knw how it is= got to get home before the shoe falls off. No sense tempting any princes
Melissa Marr
#29. Yes, I'm sure [the princess] thinks daily of a delinquent midget apprentice growing up to claim her hand ahead of all the nobles and princes of the realm. What could any of them possibly give that you don't have, except titles, land, wealth and all that.
Jonathan Renshaw
#30. I asked Ochto what in the name of all that was sacred he thought he was doing.
"Helping you," said Dirnes.
"Why?"
They put the soldier down, and Ochto straightened to look me in the eye. "Because I know nothing about kings and princes, but I know men.
Megan Whalen Turner
#31. These were the places that Ama described in her stories, places where all the children of the tribe would be princes and princesses and their stomachs always full. It was a once-upon-a-time world that used to be. In
Mary E. Pearson
#32. Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.
Giraldus Cambrensis
#33. They loved him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magical people.
Holly Black
#34. I considered how the princes were masters of manipulation and wondered if Ahkeel knew exactly how this would end and if I'd survive his game.
Pippa DaCosta
#35. I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years.
Max Muller
#36. God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#37. Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
Francis I
#38. Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
Robert Burton
#39. Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck,
And yet methinks I have astronomy.
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well ...
William Shakespeare
#40. Princes give rewards with their own hands,
But death or punishment by the hands of other.
John Webster
#41. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!
John Keats
#42. You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes ...
Niccolo Machiavelli
#43. It is too dangerous to meddle in the marriage of princes,' he muttered as he withdrew. Arundel made a joke at his expense, saying 'He lost his post as Chancellor that day, for the Queen had usurped it,' which drew wry laughter from the deputation.
Alison Weir
#44. In my Indian bedroom, the carved, cut-out marble jalis, or screens, which were formerly used by Indian princes to keep their wives from other eyes, have a new purpose: they are not only decorations, but a means of security, for they can be locked without shutting off the air.
Doris Duke
#47. What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
Laozi
#48. Diana introduced me to Princes William and Harry. Diana just wanted her sons to know what was happening in her life.
Hasnat Khan
#49. The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.
John Knox
#50. He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of themselves use the terms "lonely," "friendless," "of small account." Is not this making humility their base?
Laozi
#51. We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
#52. Careful, Prince. We wouldn't want to spill any royal blood today. I promise you, as long as you follow my command, you will remain safe. ~ Nadia from Robin Danner's The Princes Bound
Robin Danner
#53. The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.
Matthew Of Edessa
#55. I finally realized there are no handsome princes - that it was all up to me ... that it had always been up to me.
Meg Cabot
#56. This is of course the Prince of Wales's motto to this day, though subsequent princes have not adopted John of Bohemia's custom of fighting while tied up and blind.
Stephen Clarke
#57. Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.
Edmond De Goncourt
#58. If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world.
Martin Luther
#59. They may hail you like an Angel. They may claim you are the world's prince of princes. They may lift you with praise many kilometers above sea level. They may say you are the best of the bests ... But always remember "you are a human being" with flesh and blood.
Israelmore Ayivor
#60. The pleached bower,
Where honeysuckles ripened by the sun
Forbid the sun to enter, like favorites
Made proud by princes, that advance their pride
Against that power that bred it.
William Shakespeare
#61. It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#62. But here's the truth: no matter how much you might wish for it, princes don't come around every day, and happy endings don't grow on trees. Take it from me: the sooner you grow up, the less you'll be disappointed.
Jodi Picoult
#63. The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
Jay Inslee
#64. I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.
Michael Servetus
#66. Under pressure, even the smartest people will start to rationalize that frogs really can turn into princes.
Pierre Mornell
#67. If there are princes involved, you should stay out of their way." Jerry's smile softened his hard-as-nails persona. "I wish I could." I smiled my own half-hearted smile. "Maybe they should stay outta my way?" He chuckled, the sound of his laughter soft and delicious. "Maybe.
Pippa DaCosta
#68. But so long as power remains by itself on one side, and enlightenment and wisdom isolated on the other, wise men will rarely think of great things, princes will more rarely carry out fine actions, and the people will continue to be vile, corrupt, and unhappy.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#69. Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
John Evelyn
#70. Even if he could not see them, several lifetimes of listening to emperors, kings, princes, politicians and thieves had taught him that it was often not what people said, but what they did not say that revealed the truth.
Michael Scott
#71. The two princes stared at each other, one gold and one silver, one her twin and one her soul-bonded. There was nothing friendly in the stares, nothing human - two Fae males locked in some unspoken dominance battle.
Sarah J. Maas
#72. If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.
Laozi
#73. Two princes each one fair."
*Walks toward the princes*
"No get the hair.
Joanna Gleason
#74. Put not your trust in the princes of this world, for they will frig thee up and so shalt their governments, even unto the end of the earth.
Stephen King
#75. The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.
Michael Scheuer
#76. That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.
King James I
#78. Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
Isaac D'Israeli
#79. We Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.
Elizabeth I
#80. Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges ... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
Thomas Carlyle
#81. Are you all right? You seem tense," Maxon noted. "You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes," I said with a shrug.
Kiera Cass
#82. Princes know themselves to be princes, and are not snobs; besides, they believe themselves to be so far above everything that is not of their blood royal that noblemen and commoners appear, in the depths beneath them, to be practically on a level.
Marcel Proust
#83. When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.
John Donne
#84. Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
Isaac D'Israeli
#85. Through study and learning they earn the pleasure of princes-
What comes of such learning?
Butter never rises from boiling sour milk.
Speak bird! What do you yearn by pecking newly sprouted grain?
Nursing one broken heart, Bahu, is equal to the worship of many years.
Sultan Bahu
#86. Princes have but their titles for their glories,
An outward honor for an inward toil;
And, for unfelt imaginations,
They often feel a world of restless cares.
William Shakespeare
#87. They spoke as though these Princes are so remote from life as we know it that the smallest sign of humanity, the mere fact even that they communicated by means of speech was worth noting and proclaiming.
Nancy Mitford
#88. Who could truly set His shield to rest?
His throne? His mighty spear?
Think on that. Remember it well, O princes.
Who could lay waste to Tenochtitlan?
Who dares assail the foundation of heaven?
David Bowles
#90. Just because a frog says he's a prince doesn't mean you should kiss him. For all you know he's one of the arrogant, worthless princes who might better serve society as a pair of buttered legs on someone's plate.
Julie Wright
#91. Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.
Pope Pius II
#92. For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.
Michael W. Smith
#93. We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts
C.S. Lewis
#94. A Persian fairy tale tells of the Three Princes of Serendip, who "were always making discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of."7 Creativity in the wild operates much like that.
Daniel Goleman
#95. Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring.
But who am I that I should have the best of anything?
Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,
... beer is good enough for me.
Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves
#97. Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, deadened by tourists and shoppers, the twin curse ay modern capitalism.
Irvine Welsh
#98. No, Princes Charming," Duncan cheerfully corrected. "'Prince' is the noun; that's what gets pluralized. 'Charming' is an adjective; you can't add an S to it like that.
Christopher Healy
#99. I'm feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another.
Christopher Moore
#100. Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.
Jonathan Swift
