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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
— Francis Bacon
In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
A privateer learns to press any advantage.""And a prince?"
"Princes get used to the word yes. — Leigh Bardugo
Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.
— Michel De Montaigne
Princes are venison in Heaven.
— George Herbert
It is a thing to be regretted (and prevented, if possible) that a whole nation should be ruined for the pride and obstinacy of its princes,
— Matthew Henry
When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Not all princes he had read about in books of legends are beautiful and noble and carry their heads high.
— James Purdy
Put not your trust in princes'?
— Diana Gabaldon
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
— James MacGregor Burns
There are no crown princes at Ford,
— Edsel Ford
My life as a princes, or a peasant, is not worth living without you in it.
— Victoria Alexander
Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other. — John Webster
For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.
— Michael W. Smith
We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts
— C.S. Lewis
The door swings inward as the first soldier rounds the corner, but my thoughts are only of Cal. It seems princes make me blind.
— Victoria Aveyard
Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there
Must go upon their knees. — John Webster
Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
— John Evelyn
Detraction's a bold monster, and fears notTo wound the fame of princes, if it find
But any blemish in their lives to work on. — Philip Massinger
The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Diana introduced me to Princes William and Harry. Diana just wanted her sons to know what was happening in her life.
— Hasnat Khan
Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.
— Michel De Montaigne
Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.
— Catherynne M Valente
A messy business, rescuing princes.
— Sherry Thomas
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
— Michel De Montaigne
Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
— Elizabeth I
The quiet mind is richer than a crown ... Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.
— Robert Greene
On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.
— Matthew Of Edessa
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
— William Shakespeare
Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.
— Henry Newbolt
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?
— Jean-Baptiste Say
I serve, should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
— Thomas More
Saudis of all sorts recent having to beg princes for favors to secure services that should be a public right
— Karen Elliott House
In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
I felt a little bad about killing the man, but what choice did I have?" ... Louie Morelli, "The Prince of Mafia Princes.
— Patricia Bellomo
Under pressure, even the smartest people will start to rationalize that frogs really can turn into princes.
— Pierre Mornell
We are born as princes, and we die as kings, but in between, we are simply men." - - King Errick Wise
— Amanda Sebring
Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.
— Pope Pius II
Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
— Jean De La Fontaine
Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.
— Jonathan Swift
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
— Desiderius Erasmus
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There are so many girls, and so few princes.
— Liza Minnelli
You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes ...
— Niccolo Machiavelli
It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.
— Soman Chainani
You're believing in love more than I do; you're standing up for someone who is less than deserving.
— David Levithan
Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights.
— Gloria Allred
Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.
— Edmond De Goncourt
There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.
— Christina, Queen Of Sweden
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
— Michel De Montaigne
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
I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.
— Benjamin Franklin
O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.
— William Shakespeare
Those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
I'm feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another.
— Christopher Moore
Born to be kings, we're the princes of the Universe!
— Freddie Mercury
If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth
— Martin Luther
You don't need princes to save you. I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
— Neil Gaiman
Two princes. Fine men indeed. But neither is the prince of my heart.
— Coleen Murtagh Paratore
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The word must is not to be used to princes.
— Elizabeth I
Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.
— Sabine Baring-Gould
They're all crazy, Oncat. Invisible armies, monster princes. Let's go set fire to something.
— Leigh Bardugo
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
— Robert Burton
Cinderella time?' You knw how it is= got to get home before the shoe falls off. No sense tempting any princes
— Melissa Marr
Princes should devolve on others those matters that entail responsibility, and reserve to themselves those that relate to grace and favour.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Those who by valorous ways become princes ... acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.
— W.K. Marriott
I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ... .
— Henry Clay
I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.
— Cary Elwes
