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Quotes About Princely

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
~ Francis Bacon
He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
~ William Shakespeare, Henry V
Chardin had shown him that the kind of environment in which he lived could, for a fraction of the cost, have many of the charms he had previously associated with palaces and the princely life.
~ Alain de Botton
Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
~ Edward Bach
Living a Princely life requires that you learn to think and reason like the Prince, talk and behave like him, react like him as well.
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Unlike we are, unlike, O princely Heart! Unlike our uses and our destinies... Thou, bethink thee, art A guest for queens to social pageantries, With gages from a hundred brighter eyes Than tears even can make mine... What hast though to do With looking from the lattice-lights at me, A poor, tired, wandering singer...
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Are you out of your princely wits?" What's he? Let me have his beard sawed off and his eyebrows filed more civil!
~ John Webster
Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish a new dynasty. Would that we loved the ancients more and copied them less! It has been said that the Greeks were great because they never drew from the antique. The
~ Kakuz? Okakura
Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish a new dynasty. Would that we loved the ancients more and copied them less! It has been said that the Greeks were great because they never drew from the antique.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
The lurid red glow from the dragon's stained-glass eyes bathed the harmonious planes of his cheeks and forehead, contoured the sharp angles of his princely nose and square, determined chin. His sable hair was blacker than night in the underworld, spun from silken shadows. His silvery eyes gleamed with anarchy as he stalked toward her.
~ Gaelen Foley
At last, after creeping as it were, for such a length of time along the utmost verge of the opaque puddle of obscurity, they had taken that downright plunge, which, sooner or later, is the destiny of all families, whether princely or plebian
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
here be said save that even in poor cottages there rain down divine spirits from heaven, like as in princely palaces there be those who were worthier to tend swine than to have lordship over men?
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
~ Edward Bach
The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. There is a princely manner of giving and accepting.
~ Lavater
He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
~ William Shakespeare
When the fair light of morning rose The princely tamers of their foes
~ V?lm?ki
Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.
~ William Shakespeare
O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!
~ William Shakespeare
We risk life and limb and my princely good looks for a spoonful of sweet sock?
~ J.V. Hart
Helen's former suitors had honored their vow, and Agamemnon's army was rich with princely blood. It was said that he had done what no man before him could: united our fractious kingdoms with common cause.
~ Madeline Miller
Kashmir and Hyderabad were the two apples of princely India that were the rosiest, and on the thorniest branch too.
~ Unknown
We marvel why, among the most progressive Western nations, architecture should be so devoid of originality, so replete with repetitions of obsolete styles. Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish a new dynasty. Would that we loved the ancients more and copied them less! It has been said that the Greeks were great because they never drew from the antique.
~ Okakura Kakuz?