Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Courtier

A courtier should be without feeling and without honor.French.

An old courtier, a young beggar.

Better a field with the birds than hanging on lords.Dutch.

Eye-service is the courtier’s art.Danish.

He has a veil upon a veil. (The Italians say, to make a mask with a natural face on the outside.)Arabian.

Marble polished is neither less hard or less cold; so with courtiers.Chinese.

The courtier is cringing and servile in adversity.Chinese.

To be a perfect courtier it is necessary to be without honor and without temper.Duke of Orleans.