Top 33 Princes Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Princes Quotes from famous people such as Isaac D’Israeli, William Shakespeare, Doris Duke, Matthew Tobin Anderson, Ludwig van Beethoven, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Certain it is that their power increased always in an e

Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
Isaac D’Israeli
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes’ palaces.
William Shakespeare
In my Indian bedroom, the carved, cut-out marble jalis, or screens, which were formerly used by Indian princes to keep their wives from other eyes, have a new purpose: they are not only decorations, but a means of security, for they can be locked without shutting off the air.
Doris Duke
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they’re peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The word must is not to be used to princes.
Elizabeth I
My dream is to turn Europe into 300 million princes.
Mikis Theodorakis
Diana introduced me to Princes William and Harry. Diana just wanted her sons to know what was happening in her life.
Hasnat Khan
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes’ bastards.
Robert Burton
I was a football fan, a kid who loved football and when you are a kid from Paris there are only two stadiums – the Stade de France or the Parc de Princes – and that is what makes Paris so special.
Kylian Mbappe
It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, ‘You’re Stifler’s mom. Can I take a picture with you?’ But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like.
Jennifer Coolidge
Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.
Sabine Baring-Gould
The net’s future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg’s creation, princes and priests moved to restrict the right to print books.
Vint Cerf
I don’t go hunting with kings and princes.
Ken Cuccinelli
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain’s chair of the Enterprise.
Patrick Stewart
The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church.
Thomas Becket
My grandfather was the king of a region in western Nigeria, where I had the privilege to live for seven years while growing up. But what we think of as royalty in the U.K. is very different to royalty in Nigeria: if you were to throw a stone there, you would hit about 30 princes.
David Oyelowo
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
Leonardo da Vinci
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
Joseph de Maistre
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Once I.D.W. folks saw that people like Ben Shapiro were generally smart, highly informed, and often princely in difficult conversations, it’s more understandable that occasionally a few frogs got kissed here and there as some I.D.W. members went in search of other maligned princes.
Eric Weinstein
I had just screen-tested with the director for another prince for a Disney project. I won’t say which one, but I’d kind of been through the process with that – and I was so gutted that it didn’t work out. I said to my agent, I’m swearing off princes for a little bit.’
Nicholas Galitzine
The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.
Michael Scheuer
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
P. T. Barnum
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
James MacGregor Burns
I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years.
Max Muller
I fancy all the Disney princes, obviously. I also fancy some objects and animals that are in Disney films, like the French Candlestick from ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ and I used to be slightly jealous of the feather duster that he used to slightly get off with.
Emily Atack
With fantasy, one often has to think of a well-loved series before narrowing the selection to a favourite book. So it is with Zelazny. I’ve read his ‘Princes in Amber’ books so often, I know them almost verbatim, so much so that I am now trying to forget them so I can return to them with renewed pleasure.
Neal Asher
Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.
Giraldus Cambrensis
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
Francis I
The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
Jay Inslee
For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.
Michael W. Smith