Courtiers Quotes
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Courtiers Quotes & Sayings
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I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.
— Andrew Jackson
Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.
— Decimius Magnus Ausonius
You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.
— J. Maarten Troost
Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.
— Doris Lessing
I have no talent for certainty.
— Jane Austen
I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.
— James Salter
Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.
— Julio Cortazar
Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?
— Elizabeth Bibesco
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki.
— Robert Gottlieb
Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
— Mitch Albom
I wanted more than life could ever grant
— Billy Corgan
The Ganseys were courtiers and kings, and when there was no castle to invite them, they built one.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Peoples, be peoples and others will respect you. Be courtiers and others will scorn you and it will be well deserved.
— Louis-Joseph Papineau
His idea of how the country was doing had been determined by the size of the butts he picked up off the sidewalk.
— Fannie Flagg
The world and I are within one another.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.
— Isaac Asimov
The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.
— Chaim Potok
I will write: for myself, for those who come after, and for the voices that cry out not to be forgotten.
— Stephen R. Lawhead
The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec