Powerful Person

Famous quotes containing the words powerful and/or person:

“Why does he not know how to select servants? The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

“Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)