56 Inspiring Princess Quotes

In the realm of fairy tales and royal fantasies, the allure of princesses holds a special place in our hearts. These iconic characters, intertwined with magic, courage, and grace, often embody virtues that inspire and uplift us. Whether we're reflecting on their journeys of self-discovery or drawing strength from their unwavering resolve, princesses offer timeless wisdom that resonates with all ages. In this carefully curated collection of 56 inspiring princess quotes, we delve into the words that captivate our imaginations and remind us of the inner royalty that resides within us all. Prepare to be enchanted and motivated as you explore these pearls of wisdom from beloved princesses across stories old and new.

1. “Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.” - Frances Hodgson Burnett

2. “Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.” - William Goldman

3. “Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to forget who you are and settle for being something horrible like an--an accountant!” - Regina Doman

4. “You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such thing as royal blood. I believe we are what we make ourselves, and as such, you, Crown Princess, are nothing.” - Shannon Hale

5. “Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war, saving the life of captain Johanne in the process; I had escaped the dungeons of Fortress Drachensbett, and after an arduous journey successfully reunited with my double, so preserving her, and all Montagne, from Prince Flonian's rapacity, I would somehow master the despicable art of being a princess.” - Catherine Gilbert Murdock

6. “I’m not a damsel and there is no distress” - Carrie Jones

7. “Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.” - Alex Flinn

8. “Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..."(Rapunzel glares)"Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.” - Shannon Hale

9. “Jennifer's smiling! She must be feeling sick or something!” - Nick Sullivan

10. “I have nothing against Sean Penn. I don't even mind that he ended up divorcing Madonna. I mean, I still like Shia LaBeouf even though he chose to star in Transformers, which turned out to be a movie about robots from space.That Talk.Which is just as bad as choosing to divorce Madonna, if you ask me” - Meg Cabot

11. “I wish I could say when Michael's dark eyes met mind, I was completely cool and collected about seeing him again after all this time, and that I laughed airily and said all the right things. I wish I could say after having pretty much single-handedly brought democracy to a country I happen to be a princess of, and written a four-hundred-page romance novel, and gotten into every college to which I applied (even if it's just because I'm a princess), that I handled meeting Michael for the first time again after throwing my snowflake necklace in his face almost two years ago with total grace and aplomb.But I totally didn't.” - Meg Cabot

12. “And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her” - Meg Cabot

13. “Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen" she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures.” - Meg Cabot

14. “Lana says J.P. makes Matt Damon from the Bourne movies look like Oliver from Hannah Montana” - Meg Cabot

15. “But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogsAt least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning” - Meg Cabot

16. “Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. (they make these?) For me to store my novel on, since he was right-I never back up my computer's hard drive.The sight of it-it's Princess Leia in her Hoth outfit, my favorite of her costumes (how had he remembered?) brought tears to my eyes.” - Meg Cabot

17. “And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much.Yes! I know it was critically acclaimed. I know it won all these awards! It's very sad that a boy is dead and all. But I thought the movie Enchanted, with the singing princess and the chipmunk and the people dancing in Central Park, was cuter.So there!” - Meg Cabot

18. “No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules” - Meg Cabot

19. “But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't.Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world” - Meg Cabot

20. “I say it instead. "You told so," I admit. "You told me my image of Brody wasn't real, and you were right. I was just too blind to see it." He laughs a little. "You were to blind to see a lot of things Princess." It's reassuring when he calls me Princess-as opposed to princess or, worse, Lily. One seems too mocking, the other too intimate. His ironic nickname feels safe.” - Tera Lynn Childs

21. “Should I have taken him by the hand and led him over to the Zappa? No. I won't spoon-feed the customers. If you don't know your alphabet, you have no business leaving your house, let alone shopping for premium music.” - Yvonne Prinz

22. “But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.” - Walt Disney Company

23. “Inconceivable!""You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” - William Goldman

24. “And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.” - Scott Westerfeld

25. “The good news is that I believe every woman who wants to can find a great partner. You're just going to need to get rid of the idea that marriage will make you happy. It won't. Once the initial high wears off, you'll just be you, except with twice as much laundry. Because ultimately, marriage is not about getting something -- it's about giving it. Strangely, men understand this more than we do. Probably because for them marriage involves sacrificing their most treasured possession -- a free-agent penis -- and for us, it's the culmination of a princess fantasy so universal, it built Disneyland.” - Tracy McMillan

26. “And as you see, poor Idris was...persuaded,shall we say? Yes,persuaded to tell me about Tyre and his own route back to Al-Kal'as from there. Faysal, reveal to her his pain." The Captain of the Guard dragged Idris forward. Faysal then ripped away his shirt, and Aminah gasped. Angry scars laced his bare chest, some of the burns still crusted and weeping. Tears tumbled down Aminah's face, but Idris did not raise his head to see them. "Forgive me" he mumered.” - Michael O. Tunnell

27. “If you're late to the rescue, the imprisoned princess will just have to escape on her own!” - Kyo Shirodaira

28. “You will find yourself, as he did. But that will not mean it is easy. There are few things easy in life that are worth the doing.” - Mette Ivie Harrison

29. “Puedes besar a cuantos sapos quieras, puedes convertirte en rana. Pero espero que no decidas quedarte así. Recuerda que si tienes ancas es para saltar alto.” - Doly Mallet

30. “La soledad por elección es a veces una barrera qué nos ponemos para no sentirnos heridos” - Doly Mallet

31. “Es muy poca la gente que entiende el concepto de soledad como algo bueno. La mayoría tiene miedo de no estar acompañada, y qué triste que no disfruten de su propia compañía.” - Doly Mallet

32. “A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. She stamped her little foot at me."He pointed down to her toes as if she were a child yet.Then he straightened his shoulders. "But I sent her back to the nursery, where she belonged, and told her to play with her dolls instead. As everyone knows, a female on a hunt is a distraction at best and bad luck at worse."Which explained why Beatrice went into the woods with her hound alone, George thought. She looked now as though she had gone to some other place where she could not hear her father's words and thus could not be hurt by them. George wondered how often she was forced to go to that place.Did King Helm not see how much she was like him? It seemed she was rejected for any sign of femininity yet also rejected for not showing enough femininity, How could she win?” - Mette Ivie Harrison

33. “Ugly and ungainly. The least dependable creature you ever met. Just when you think you understand her, she changes. If only I had a son," he said bitterly.Over and over he disparaged her, and George would have thought that Beatrice would be so used to it, she could not be hurt further. But he saw her neck grow stiffer and stiffer.” - Mette Ivie Harrison

34. “Maybe Leland would appear there by chance in the morning his chin freshly shaved against his stiff new collar and upon seeing his love in such duress would spring into action. Maybe he would even carry her out like a princess in a bedtime story.” - Anna Godbersen

35. “So, yes, I will marry you. Someday. If you'll have me," he said modestly."Of course I will, you idiot," I said with a shriek, and threw myself into his arms.” - Eilis O'Neal

36. “You can't be just a scribe, or a wizard. Nameless God," he cried, raking a hand through his hair. "I wish they had never found you, never made you think you were the princess. Nothing else, will ever be good enough, not now. You'll never be happy. You'll throw yourself into danger, take it all on yourself, just to prove that they were all wrong about you. And I just-I just-"And without warning, he stepped on front of me, grabbed my shoulders to stop my pacing, and kissed me.” - Eilis O'Neal

37. “I'm going to teach you to ride Princess." "Princess?" "My motorcycle." I laugh. "You named your motorcycle Princess?" "What can I say?" he teases. "I call all my favorite things princess.” - Tera Lynn Childs

38. “She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.” - Frances Hodgson Burnett

39. “Something about her is so tempting to look at. Her anger has a childish aura as if she isn’t made of real evil; just a bratty princess playing with her toy fangs.” - Cameron Jace

40. “Caine met Diana's disbelieving gaze and laughed aloud."Why so gloomy? Doesn't every little girl want to grow up to be a queen?""Princess," Diana said."So, you got a promotion," Caine said.” - Michael Grant

41. “Each tim I think I am falling for Mister Right, and then what happens? BAM! The guy turns out to be a fraud, a swindling scoundrel, or a dishonest, disparaging jerk!” - Kym Petrie

42. “Her Highness swallowed her pride, threw on her big girl bustle, and stepped bravely into the world of single chickdom.” - Kym Petrie

43. “Trite though it (used to) sound, real sexuality is about our struggles to connect with one another, to erect bridges across the chasms that separate selves. Sexuality is, finally, about imagination. Thanks to brave people's recognition of AIDS as a fact of life, we are beginning to realize that highly charged sex can take place in all sorts of ways we'd forgotten or neglected—in a conversational nuance; in a body's posture, a certain pressure in a held hand. Sex can be everywhere we are, all the time.” - David Foster Wallace

44. “Treat her like a princess if she behaves like royalty.” - Habeeb Akande

45. “Princess Anlei to the newly knighted Lord Knight Corann: "A princess does not need to rush into the fray like some …starving creature, but moves deliberately, with a purpose. I did not think for a moment that this gathering would end without you speaking to me at some point.” - Laurel A. Rockefeller

46. “Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette” - Kathryn Lasky

47. “She smiled at the idea of being a captive princess in the rookeries, or a restrained mouse in the glitter of the ton.” - Michelle Diener

48. “Everyone should get to clobber a princess at least once," Jason said.” - Brandon Mull

49. “Just think Kate Middleton. Does she do housework? Does she work for a living? See how the world adores her? You (a kept woman) are worthy of adoration, too!” - C.T. The Innocent Kept Woman

50. “Ow!' was the first thing out of her mouth, followed by a steam of articulate and literate curses that were neither blasphemous nor prurient.She'd had years to develop a vocabulary of invective that wouldn't offend anyone. It was the sort of thing a princess had to do if she was going to be able to adequately vent her feelings.” - Mercedes Lackey

51. “Some people can seem perfect... everything about them can, on paper, be just right. Until you get to know them. Really know them. Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you.” - Meg Cabot

52. “Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late.” - Tommy Tran

53. “...you are enchanted - only a princess can leave glass footprints in the snow...” - John Geddes

54. “They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.” - Hans Christian Andersen

55. “What's the matter with you?" I hissed at her as we followed Kieran and Solange inside.'She's royalty!'"And a vampire, remember?"'Oh yeah,' Chloe paused. 'Nope, princess trumps vampire.” - Alyxandra Harvey

56. “” - Pet Torres