Quotes About Influence

Any triumph she has is halved if I am not there to see it. And anything that goes wrong for me, any slight or humiliation, she is quick to perceive and she would even be quick to revenge—oh!—but inside her heart is singing to know that I have taken a blow.

Child, you cannot change a king, you can only make him laugh.

He had that York gift, didn't he?" he presses me. "Of making people love him? Like your father King Edward did? Like you have? It's a blessing, there's no real sense to it. It's just that some men have a charm, don't they? And then people follow them? People just follow them?

They don't like to think of women in power, women as leaders.

we will put the Howards so high they can never fall.

Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled with her uncle, or with any of the men at court that could have been her allies. She did not care who hated her, as long as the king was at her beck and call. And she could ruin any man she chose.

The thought of a king who can determine not only what life his people lead but even the nature of the God they worship makes me shiver.

Looking from one bright delighted face to another I thought for one illuminating moment what fools we were to make this one man's temper the very centre of our lives

Barthes me lisait, donc on s'est rencontrés.

all begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and "unsurrounding" yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

Nobody gets to be Queen of England by being loveable. You will have to play your cards right.

The queen is right. The queen is always right.

For most women, being seen, having others pay attention to you, is imagined and experienced as more desirable and more powerful than commanding an army or seizing control of the means of production and reproduction.

Los buenos artistas copian, los grandes roban.

Les bons artistes empruntent, les grands artistes volent.

Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.

Et puis quoi, qu'importe la culture ? Quand il a écrit Hamlet, Molière avait-il lu Rostand ? Non.

Your teacher didn't lie to you. A centaur never lies. He merely edited his information, on orders from the King, so as not to force on the impressionable minds of children things their parents did not want them to hear. Education has ever been thus.

He who conquers the streets conquers the masses; and he who conquers the masses conquers the state.

Yo declaro que la justicia no es otra cosa que la conveniencia del más fuerte.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Books are immortal sons defying their sires.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.