Throne Quotes

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Alone, Before

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Bench, Covered, Velvet

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Others, Matter, Lives

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
James Russell Lowell

Truth, Wrong, Forever

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling

Alone, Down, Travels

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
King Solomon

Kindness, Through, Made

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.
Heidi Klum

Home, Everything, Hands

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.
Homer

Good, Evil, Blessings

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Walter Bagehot

Life, Family, Down

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
William Ralph Inge

May, Himself, Sit

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.
John Podhoretz

Politics, While, President

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.
Kiefer Sutherland

Experience, Play, Acting

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
Pierre Corneille

Husband, True, Father

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
Boris Yeltsin

Long, Sit, Build

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.
James Buchan

Politics, School, Long

There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.
Meg Cabot

Waiting, Parents, Nothing

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
Wallace Stevens

Morning, Evening, Sun

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
Barry Cornwall

Smile, Night, Light

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
Evelyn Waugh

God, Simple, Learned

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
Al Goldstein

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
Jean Racine

Remorse, Worries, Weighs

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
Maximilien Robespierre

Against, Might, Crime

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Petrarch

Born, Fortune, Honorable

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.
William Gurnall

God, Made, Another

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
Frances Farmer

God, Forget, Easy

I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.
Barbara Mandrell

Peace, Good, Happy

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
Joseph de Maistre

Free, Wonderful, Action

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
Georges Clemenceau

Single, Land, Tyrant

Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.
Marcus Annaeus Lucan

Loyalty, Share, Among

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.
Roland Allen

Religion, Christ, Morality

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