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Tag Name "Courtiers" (11)

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Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.
Isaac Asimov
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I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.
Andrew Jackson
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Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.
Doris Lessing
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In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.
Owen Barfield
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To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.
Saadi
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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
Voltaire
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...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones
Carleton S. Coon
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To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.
Eiji Yoshikawa
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The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.
Pope Francis
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What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come to commoners as well as courtiers. Like virtue, it is its own reward. Like the Holy Grail, it seldom appears to those who don't pursue it.
Stephen Birmingham