Secret Princes Quotes & Sayings

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions. — Hermann Hesse

I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. — Louisa May Alcott

But the princes, putting the words of their wise men to naught, thought each to himself: If I but strike quickly enough, and in secret, I shall destroy those others in their sleep, and there will be none to fight back; the earth shall be mine.
Such was the folly of princes, and there followed the Flame Deluge. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

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

In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute. — Arsene Wenger

the walking stick, like a burqa, conferred protective status... — Robert Galbraith

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting. — Harold Macmillan

Santa was dead, to begin with. There was no doubt whatsoever about that. The after-action report was signed by the field commander, the director of operations, the secretary of the Office of Sidhe Affairs, and the chief battle-mage. Janus had signed it - and Janus's word could be counted upon for anything he chose to put his name to. Old Saint Nicholas, the Sidhe Lord of the Yuletide, was as dead as a door-nail.
It didn't stick. — Chris Lester

Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFFs with Hitler? — Rick Riordan

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes. — Alveda King

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