Prince Quotes

• In 2010, I attended Prince George's Community College in hopes of transferring to The University of Maryland. My major was computer science, and the goal was to one day work as an I.T.

  

  Jay IDK
  • Work
  • Science
  • Community

• Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • People
  • Desert
  • Snake

• The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Things
  • Consider
  • Avoid

• The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Spirit
  • Rule
  • Prince

• They that possess the prince possess the laws.

  

  John Dryden
  • Prince

• There was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Ugly
  • Kissing
  • Princess

• When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • World
  • Earth
  • Prince

• Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Free
  • Prince

• It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Prince
  • Servants

• A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Enemy
  • Darkness
  • Empire

• A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Government
  • Prince
  • Condition

• I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Sad
  • Laugh
  • Prince

• Never assume that a woman is wicked simply because she is ugly and behaves unfavorably towards you. It is unbecoming behavior for a Prince.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Woman
  • Wicked
  • Assume

• A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Promise
  • Break
  • Prince

• 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.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • War
  • Study
  • Rules

• Do not lose your heart to a faery prince. It never ends well.

  

  Julie Kagawa
  • Prince

• A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Times

• I know he Prince is up there saying to me, "This is not the way I wanted it to happen, Stevie."

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Wanted
  • Prince
  • I Know

• Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction...it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice.

  

  Elissa Schappell
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Injustice

• So you're not a prince. She's pretty astute,don't you think? Owww! I'm sorry-- I'll shut up now, Princess!

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Prince
  • Princess

• Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.

  

  Prince
  • Life
  • Name
  • Changed

• Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.

  

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Mirror
  • Consequence
  • Subjects

• We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

  

  Moliere
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Enemy

• Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Kindness
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Prince Charming

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