(58 quotes found)
“The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.”
Benjamin Franklin
“A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Rudyard Kipling
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown”
William Penn
“You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.”
Boris Yeltsin
“The throne is a glorious sepulcher”
Empress Theodora
“This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, Th”
William Shakespeare
“Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.”
Herbert Kaufman
“Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.”
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
