Princes Quotes

• Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Measures
  • Unpopular
  • Delegate

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

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Promises
  • Account
  • Princes

• Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • State
  • Princes
  • Securely

• There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Prisoners
  • Guarded
  • Princes

• In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Results
  • Accomplish
  • Princes

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Kings
  • Princes
  • Exalted

• ....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Difficulty
  • Acquire
  • Pricipality

• After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'

  

  Mohamed El-Erian
  • Expect
  • Charming
  • Conditioned

• Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

  

  John Milton
  • Courtesy
  • Princes
  • Courts

• But who looks for serious conduct at the public shows? A Cato never goes to the circus. Anything said there by the people as they celebrate should be deemed no injury. It is a place that protects excesses. Patient acceptance of their chatter is a proven glory of princes themselves.

  

  Cassiodorus
  • Glory
  • Acceptance
  • Patient

• The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Princes
  • Horror Of War

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

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Business
  • Virtue
  • Punctuality

• If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.

  

  Andy Zaltzman
  • Tax
  • Princes
  • Statue

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Power
  • Breathe
  • Princes

• 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.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Fire
  • Secret
  • Fingers

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

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Society
  • Dangerous
  • Elements

• The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

  

  Plutarch
  • Disease
  • Neighbors
  • Princes

• For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Mankind
  • Princes

• The Tiger's Curse Series has everything my heart could desire in a fantasy: exotic locations, two dashing princes, good vs. evil, the promise of danger and adventure lurking around every corner—and did I mention two dashing princes? Warning: these books may cause you to forget anything else exists until you've turned the last enthralling page. And then you'll want to start all over again!

  

  Bree Despain
  • Desire
  • Forget
  • Danger

• There are no crown princes at Ford.

  

  Edsel Ford
  • Crown
  • Princes
  • Ford

• This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Role
  • German
  • Princes