29 Princes Quotes for You to Enjoy

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting. Leonardo da Vinci

Record Only Remains Princes Sought How Fame Died Order Gain Them Might Riches Many Lived

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

Myself You Will Accident Birth Thousand Only Princes Am Beethoven

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' Joe Biden

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

Dangerous Society Other More Princes Within Governments Than Far Elements

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy. P. T. Barnum

My grandfather was the king of a region in western Nigeria, where I had the privilege to live for seven years while growing up. But what we think of as royalty in the U.K. is very different to royalty in Nigeria: if you were to throw a stone there, you would hit about 30 princes. David Oyelowo

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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

The word must is not to be used to princes. Elizabeth I

Word Must Princes Used

I fancy all the Disney princes, obviously. I also fancy some objects and animals that are in Disney films, like the French Candlestick from 'Beauty and the Beast,' and I used to be slightly jealous of the feather duster that he used to slightly get off with. Emily Atack

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong. Henry Newbolt

Strong Merciful Princes Courtesy Proud

Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to look pretty, be discreet, do charitable good deeds, and - if married to princes or kings - be quietly supportive and, above all, fertile. Linda Colley

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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

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

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

God Time Me Favor Some Kings Given Princes Reason

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

Born Princes Makes Frogs Process Us

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

First Every Bastards Ancient Kingdom Almost Most Princes Been Families

Could I anticipate the enmity of those for whom I encountered such opposition? If they had been willing, I should have gained the victory. But the head faints when it is abandoned by the other members. If they had been wise they would have seen that in attacking me they were attacking their own privileges and serving princes to their own servitude. Thomas Becket

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It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin. Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

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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

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

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