Quotes About Rivalry

The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.

If I could destroy the world, don't you think I could fight off the queen of the Fells?" Crow snorted.

I guess you never think your enemy is as clever as you are.

My opponent called me a cream puff. ... Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

[On Hollywood:] There are millions to be grabbed out here, and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around.

Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the more inseparable they become.

Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

You know young Francis Weston? He that waits on the king? His people are giving out that you're a Hebrew... Next time you're at court, take your cock out and put it on the table and see what he says to that. ~ I do that anyway, if the conversation flags.

Vadier (on Danton): "We'll clean up the rest of them, and leave that great stuffed turbot till the end." Danton (on Vadier): "Vadier? I'll eat his brains and use his skull to shit in.

What's ink in Whitehall is blood in the borderlands, what's a quibble in the law courts is a stabbing in the streets.

I am the Queen of Elfhame. Even though I am the queen in exile, I am still the queen. And that means Madoc isn't just trying to take Cardon's throne. He's trying to take mine.

I hate you because your father loves you even though you're a human brat born to his unfaithful wife, while mine never cared for me, though I am a prince of Faerie. I hate you because Locke used you and your sister to make Nicasia cry after he stole her from me. Besides which, after the tournament, Balekin never failed to throw you in my face as the mortal who could best me.

When there is a lot of power concentrated in one place, there are plenty of scraps to fight over. If the Court isn't busy drinking poison, then it's drinking bile.

Prince Balekin smiles back as though their smiles could duel without the rest of them even being involved.

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest, with black hair as iridescent as a raven's wing and cheekbones sharp enough to cut a girl's heart. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

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Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won't be Queen for long.

If I cannot be better than them, I will be so much worse.

And that means Madoc isn't just trying to take Cardan's throne. He's trying to take mine.

Bring me the crown, Cardan,' Balekin says. Prince Cardan turns on his elder brother the same cool and calculated gaze with which he has regarded so many other creatures before he's torn the wings from their back, before he's cast them in to rivers or sent them from the Court entirely. 'No, brother. I do not think that I will. I think that if I did not have another reason to cross you, I would do it for spite.

If i cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse" -Jude Duarte

If I cannot be better then them, I will become so much worse

If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse - Jude Duarte, the Cruel Prince