Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon Quotes

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Kings are for nations in swaddling clothes.

I have no right to be a king, but I have the right to create a king.

In Spain the king rules, but in the Sierra I do.

O kings, exercise your power then boldly, for it is divine and salutary for human kind, but exercise it with humility. You are endowed with it from without. At bottom it leaves you feeble, it leaves you mortal, it leaves you sinners, and charges you before God with a very heavy account.

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

For the first time in my life, I have to grab the monks by the throat. Me! The most religious man in the Kingdom! Because I've had enough- more than enough! My subjects and the elite among my subjects must obey!

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

The authority of a king is the keystone which closeth up the arch of order and government

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

Kings have long arms.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

A people may let a king fall and still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

Smash the lot of them …. Show them the fist. Prove yourself a sovereign. You are the autocrat and they should not dare to forget it.

No one is king by his own power.

Power is more satisfying to some than wealth.... Power is, indeed, a heady thing—whether it be a King, a President, a Legislature, a Court, or an Administration agency that is concerned.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

None of his bishops, abbots or great men, dared to disobey his will on any consideration; but all things divine and human depended on his nod.

I know the title of a King is a glorious title, but assure yourself that the shining glory of princely authority hath not so dazzled the eyes of our understanding, but that we well know and remember that we also are to yield an account of our actions before the Great Judge.

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do; so it is presumption and contempt to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that.