Courtiers Quotes

“Arteloth, we are courtiers. We have no useful instincts.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.”
― Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier

“Who does not know that without women we can feel no content or satisfaction throughout this life of ours, which but for them would be rude and devoid of all sweetness and more savage than that of wild beasts? Who does not know that women alone banish from our hearts all vile and base thoughts, vexations, miseries, and those turbid melancholies that so often are their fellows?”
― Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier

“...they all talked to each other like they were sparring partners. Pretty words masking sharp-edged insults.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury