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Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class. -- Dave Hickey
The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest. -- George Berkeley
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. -- Henry David Thoreau
Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself. -- Honore de Balzac
The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive. -- Decimius Magnus Ausonius
But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused. -- Charles I of England
I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland. -- W.S. Gilbert
You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth. -- Philippa Gregory
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. -- Walter Lippmann

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