Courtiers Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

5 Courtiers Quotes
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“To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face, Foure waies in court to win men's grace.”
Roger Ascham Quotes
Source: Schoolmaster
“A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Sardanapalus (act V, sc. 1)
“To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Source: London (l. 140)
“There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii)
“At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er, Each smooth as those that mutually deceive, And for their falsehood each despising each.”
James Thomson (1) Quotes
Source: Liberty (pt. V, l. 190)