#prince

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#am #another #because #could #first

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#given #god #kings #me #princes

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#first #like #prince #speak #treat

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#princeton #studies #went #women

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#into #left #middle #navy #princeton

The Empress doesn't get collared, or caged, or tortured. How artfully she beckons, how perfectly she punishes.... ↗

— Kresley Cole

#poison-princess #art

You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#beauty

She was intelligent, accomplished, beautiful. She was everything I could have asked for in a woman. But she was a king maker. She wanted power. She must have thought her only path to the throne was through Kastor.' 'My honourable barbarian. I wouldn't have picked that as your type.' 'Type?' 'A pretty face, a devious mind and a ruthless nature. ↗

— S.U. Pacat

#damen #jokaste #laurent #beauty

What the...? "Holy S***! You're 250 years old!?" He gives me a wink of his beautiful eye in response. "Surprised?" "Um, hell yeah. Ok, that's pretty much disgusting. Chester the Molester. I've been screwing an ancient artefact!" Dorian & Gabriella ↗

— S.L. Jennings

#dorian-skotos #gabriella #s-l-jennings #the-dark-prince #beauty

your name your name, paragal, in the old toung, means 'one of pure light' and so you once were. but know this: when your stroke gfalls, so shall your own star fall. Your light will go out, and you will earn a newname. You shall be caled paragor - 'one of true darkness.' darkness will be your dwelling place and it will consume you. You willl ever be hungry for what you can naver have, No darkness in alleble will be as you ↗

— Wayne Thomas Batson

#eliam #king #name #paragal #paragor