Throne, Thrones Quotes

Actually, I think the Princess has no rights whatever. She was born a lady, came into the world in her right mind, ought to have known what was implied by marrying the heir to the throne, and accordingly put up with whatever befell her. In fact, duty.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, But in this world a spell of health is the best state. What men call sovereignty is a worldly strife and constant war. Worship of God is the highest throne, the happiest of all estates.

All power, all subordination to authority rests on the executioner …. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.

Am I then, the Grand Prince, not free to dispose of my sons and my throne? I shall give it to whom I please.

If men's minds were as easily controlled as their tongues, every king would sit safely on his throne

… seated on a golden throne, receive the homage of the viziers and the beys; massacre of 2,000 prisoners; the rain falls in torrents.

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth, for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth and sit upon God's throne.

I really like 'Game of Thrones.

On the most exalted throne in the world, we are still seated on nothing but our arse.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.

An emperor will be born near Italy who will do his country much harm … He will rise from a soldier to the throne.

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes

I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms.

There will only ever be one Prince.

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world

I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.