Princes Quotes

“Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, In the Night Garden

“We were not made to please princes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“To gain everything and lose everything in the space of a moment. That is the fate of all princes destined for the throne.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“There are better things than princes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose of establishing order—value C—and maintaining a steady supply of maidens—value D. If one inserts the derivative of value A (Prince) into the equation y equals BC plus CD squared, and sets it equal to zero, giving the apex of the parabola, namely, the point of intersection between A (Prince) and B (Monster), one determines value E—a stable kingdom. It is all very complicated, and if you have a chart handy I can graph it for you.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, In the Night Garden

“Fairytales by nature only talk about the victors. The survivors. Nobody speaks about what happens to those who failed, except in the abstract: as cautionary tales to guide others onto the path to success. How many brave knights fell to the dragon before he was slayed by the noble prince? How many children burned to a crisp and eaten before the wicked witch received her due? These stories are lost, but the lesson behind them is not: it is not enough to be merely pure and good.”
― Nenia Campbell, Evergloom

“The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.”
― Sir Thomas More

“During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, The Reckoning

“How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.”
― Christiaan Huygens, Cosmotheoros: or, conjectures concerning the inhabitants of the planets

“Thieves are not so bad, and killing wears all possible costumes. There is no death, no murder that is better than any other. If you can kill me, the manner hardly bears consideration. You want to kill your own father, and you think it will make your sleep easier for the next seventy years if you can say you did it honorably. But your honor is blackened by patricide, and no amount of high-sounding formalities will make it white again.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, In the Night Garden

“When I was young and I was forced to watch Disney films, I would fast forward the good guys, wasn't interested in princes and princesses, only by the villains.”
― Nuno Roque

“The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Monsters are more effective than princes when it comes to keeping what you care about safe.”
― Katee Robert, The Beast

“Hey," Anaxantis protested. "Oh," he added, when the Muktar prince took his member in his mouth. "Oh... that's what you meant by servicing." He laughed softly.

"Aw, aw, teeth, teeth, no teeth," he hissed suddenly.

"Sowwy," Timishi, mumbled with his mouth full. "Towd you it wouldn't je jood.”
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 3: Bonds of Blood

“My knees will not tremble at the sight of a King but I will kneel down before a man of humility.”
― Princess Maleiha Bajunaid Candao

“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Princes give rewards with their own hands,
But death or punishment by the hands of other.”
― John Webster, The White Devil

“...Worship of the genius is an echo of this reverence for gods and princes. Wherever one endeavours to elevate individual men to the superhuman, the tendency also exists to imagine whole classes of people as rougher and more base than they really are.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Peoples bear the weight of curses longer than the princes who incur them.”
― Maurice Druon, La flor de lis y el león

“Arpien cleared his throat, removed his cap, and pressed his palms together in the Fifth Stance of Bereavement for Distant Relatives and Especially Good Cooks.”
― Sarah E. Morin, Waking Beauty

“I thought it was a really good story,' Cindy said. She was trying to make me feel better, I think. 'I liked the way it ended. When I was halfway through, I was thinking that maybe some handsome prince was going to show up and save the princess.'

'She didn't need a handsome prince,' I said. 'Those wild girls did just fine on their own.”
― Pat Murphy, The Wild Girls

“What are you doing here?” Prince Sulien asks, ignoring my inquiry, an edge to his words. His irritated tone helps to snap me from my dirty thoughts. A little.

“I don’t know what I’m doing here. Maybe I was just drawn to your room by some kind of magical force,” I tell him sarcastically.

Prince Zane smiles seductively. “My room’s across the hall… If you ever feel a magical force and want to head there, you’re welcome.”
― Lacey Carter Andersen, Shadow of the Crown

“Friendships acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of spirit are purchased but not owned, and at the proper time cannot be spent. Men are less hesitant about injuring someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared, because love is held together by a chain of obligation that, since men are a wretched lot, is broken on every occasion for their own self-interest; but fear is sustained by a dread of punishment that will never abandon you.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“And this fine young prince had fallen in love with a Nobody from Nowhere -- as princes sometimes do, though not as often as romantic tradition would have you believe.”
― Kate Saunders

“Marcus was depressingly certain that there wasn't a Dubious Person within a thousand miles.”
― Vivian French, The Robe of Skulls

“I didn’t know that princes sat on wooden benches.” Prince Rakturan’s grin was humorless and threatening - as usual.

“I didn’t know that peasant girls ran off to fight Magikas. We learn new things every day. It’s what makes being alive so exciting, am I right?”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“The amelioration of society was the very thing Philosophers had most at heart, and surely it was eminently fitting that they should be called in to tutor princes.”
― Carl L. Becker

“I'm staying with you. Princes kill dragons. That's what we're all about.”
― Liz Braswell, Once Upon a Dream

“We live in a time when princes are trekking while servants are flying private jets”
― Oche Otorkpa

“Did you figure out what kind of demon did it?'

'Something that eats little princes for breakfast,' Hunt crooned.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood