Regalia Quotes

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings.

A crown is no more than a hat that lets in the rain.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that Christ giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.