Top 33 Sceptre Quotes
#1. They soon experienced, that those who refuse the sword must renounce the sceptre.
Edward Gibbon
#2. O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.
Johannes Kepler
#3. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
Edward Young
#4. He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
Pierre Corneille
#5. It were for me
To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods;
To tell them that this world did equal theirs
Till they had stolen our jewel.
William Shakespeare
#6. Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#7. Give me a staff of honor for mine age,
But not a sceptre to control the world.
William Shakespeare
#8. And there is London!
England's heart and soul. By the proud flowing of her famous Thames, She circulates through countless lands and isles Her greatness; gloriously she rules, At once the awe and sceptre of the world.
Robert Montgomery
#9. With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy ambition finds.
John Milton
#10. A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.
E. Stanley Jones
#11. The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.
John Calvin
#12. The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.
Henry Highland Garnet
#13. Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.
Khushwant Singh
#14. Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#15. Let the emperor make war on heaven; let him lead heaven captive in his triumph; let him put guards on heaven; let him impose taxes on heaven! He cannot ... He gets his sceptre where he first got his humanity; his power where he got the breath of life.
Tertullian
#16. His kingdom come! For this we pray in vain,
Unless He does in our affections reign.
How fond it were to wish for such a King,
And no obedience to his sceptre bring,
Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;
His service freedom, and His judgments right.
Edmund Waller
#17. Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
#18. In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
Henry Ward Beecher
#19. To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.
Lewis Carroll
#20. Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.
Benjamin Franklin
#21. The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#22. As 'twas in the times of old 'tis now, The sword is the sceptre, and all must bow.
Friedrich Schiller
#23. They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea,
He wields a mighty sceptre,
O'er lesser powers that be.
William Ross Wallace
#24. A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
Edith Evans
#25. The sovereignty of God is that golden sceptre in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgements.
Thomas Brooks
#26. God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine,
For on his throne his sceptre do they sway;
And as their subjects ought them to obey,
So kings should feare and serve their God againe.
King James I
#27. In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
Philip Sidney
#28. God's Fatherly prerogative, is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy - the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#29. I sit here like a monarch on his throne
I've got my sceptre, but no crown to call my own
-Mephistopheles
Johann Wolfgang Von Geothe
#30. Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#33. Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.
Jose Saramago
