Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.
[Late-night host] is not really a job for a woman. You can't have kids and be a late-night host. I mean Samantha Bee has children, but you're there all day and all night. No one has a life outside of it. I would never try to have a family. I care much more about a career anyway, than having a family, so that's my own prerogative. It's just not something that a woman.
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.
As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.
Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
