Top 261 Princes Quotes & Sayings

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.

There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the prince she fell in love with.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

There are so many girls, and so few princes.

Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings.

There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

Princes are venison in Heaven.

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

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.

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.

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.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

They [German princes] made a pact with the devil and landed in hell.

There are no crown princes at Ford.

While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven brothers--they were all princes--used to go to school with stars on their breasts and swords at their sides. They wrote upon golden slates with diamond pencils, and could read just as well without a book as with one, so there was no mistake about their being princes. Their sister Elise sat upon a little footstool of looking-glass, and she has a picture-book which had cost the half of a kingdom. Oh, these children were very happy; but it was not to last thus forever.

Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.

The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

My dream is to turn Europe into 300 million princes.

I don't go hunting with kings and princes.

What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

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.

O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]

But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

Och, Dani my darling, you're not giving me a single reason to wait for you to grow up. You're giving me a thousand reasons not to." It's Christian! I'm so glad it's him, not one of the other princes! I turn around in his arms and tip my head back. "Hi, Christian!" I beam at him. He's hotter than the other princes. I'm glad I got him. I'll take the others, too, but I want him first. "I want to grow up. Now. Hurry.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.

If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

The word must is not to be used to princes.

The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.