Top 100 Throne Quotes
#1. Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
Amos Bronson Alcott
#2. Each time that we respond unmercifully, our malevolence reveals our lack of faith. If we believe that Jesus will set all things right in the end from his great white throne of judgment then we can be merciful and respond with mercy.
Jason Farley
#3. If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.
Idries Shah
#4. We'll free as many as we can and build an army in the forest. It might take years, but I won't rest until every last Calorin is gone from these shores and my father is restored to the throne. - Corin
Claire M. Banschbach
#5. My nephew is not fit to sit a privy, let alone the Iron Throne.
George R R Martin
#6. A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we pray in His name it should be without wavering. Remember His merits, and how prevalent they must be. "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."
Nehemiah Adams
#7. Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love ... Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#8. Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?
Frances Harper
#9. O Virgin most holy, none abounds in the knowledge of God except through thee; none, O Mother of God, obtains salvation except through thee, none receives a gift from the throne of mercy except through thee.
Pope Leo XIII
#10. It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.
Charles Spurgeon
#11. A chair does not make a great leader. But a great leader can make any chair, his throne."
--Dark Mother
Jeffrey B. Thompson
#12. I'm impressed you got up here so quickly - and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand at being an assassin." He shook the hair out of his face.
"I'm not interested in court ladies," he said thickly, and kissed her.
Sarah J. Maas
#13. 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
#14. In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His covenant. It fails, as Martin Luther put it, to 'let God be God.' Sin aims to dethrone God and strives to place someone or something else upon His rightful throne.
Joel Beeke
#15. Better to suffer the loneliness of the cold throne room than endure the isolation to be found within the crowds of facile courtiers.
Stuart Hill
#16. I don't believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable.
Katy Perry
#17. Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.
Emma Thompson
#19. I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold: Come they from cottage or come they from hall, Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all! Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin I gather them in, I gather them in!
Benjamin
#20. Shall we gather at the river,
Where bright angel feet have trod;
With its crystal tide for ever,
Flowing by the throne of God?
Robert Lowry
#21. The throne of wisdom is the soul of the righteous, that is, wisdom sits on the soul of the righteous as on her chair, as on her throne, and there judges whatever she judges.
Augustine Of Hippo
#22. large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer
Charles Dickens
#23. Then I have an ivory chair high to sit upon, Almost like my father's chair, which is an ivory throne; There I sit uplift and upright, there I sit alone.
G. Norman Lippert
#24. Gabriel sighed and leaned back in the throne. Are we going to be dramatic now? Maybe I should call for some wine of my own and we can wallow and aimlessly fight through our miserable drunkenness.
Chelsea Fine
#25. It's easy: You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail you'll find a throne; and whatever, or whoever, is on that throne is what's of highest value to you. On that throne is what you worship.
Louie Giglio
#26. coronation. "Exactly that. The Scrolls of the Ancient Kings tell of the Throne being crafted for the One Protector of Albion. Many kings and queens have sat upon it, I assure you, and there is no record of that "singing" business of last
Daisy Piper
#27. I name you Elentiya." She kissed the assassin's brow. "I give you this name to use with honour, to use when other names grow too heavy. I name you Elentiya, 'Spirit That Could Not Be Broken.
Sarah J. Maas
#28. The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#29. A queen could leave her throne.
But a mother never leaves her son.
V.E Schwab
#31. It isn't our responsibility to defend our values and prioritize our message over our posture. We inherited a kingdom that cannot be shaken; we are an unthreatened people. God will stay on His throne without our rigorous defense.
Jen Hatmaker
#32. Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.
Pierre Corneille
#33. They all want to get to the throne: this is their madness - as if happiness were sitting on the throne! Often it is mud that sits on the throne - and often the throne also sits on mud.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares ... heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.
Joan D. Vinge
#35. The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.
Sri Aurobindo
#36. They called him prince when his father was alive, now he's about to take the king's throne.
Katy Evans
#37. Of all the pairs the Throne endorsed None rose to burn as bright As Lucifer, the Morning Star, And Lucinda, his Evening Light
Lauren Kate
#38. Remember us, Belle," Cyllinus wept, "when the dangers are past and you sit upon the throne in Greenreach. Think of us. Do not forget me, little one.
Robin Jarvis
#39. It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.
Michel De Montaigne
#40. Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime,
The image of Eternity,
the throne
Of the Invisible! even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
George Gordon Byron
#41. I've never taken a woman on a beach," - Rowan Whitethorn
Sarah J. Maas
#42. EPIGRAPH And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
James Rollins
#43. Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
Baal Shem Tov
#45. Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
Henry Ward Beecher
#46. His background and knowledge can't be transplanted overnight, ... I'd make a point that unless you sat on the throne, you don't know what it's like to be king. In reality there are a lot of things that you do and people you influence that other people don't see and that impact is there for the city.
Jeri Ryan
#48. We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.
Israelmore Ayivor
#49. It was a voice she had heard before, deep and raspy. It made her bones crack and splinter, made her feel the astonishing cold of a winter long since passed.
Sarah J. Maas
#50. I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.
John Wesley
#51. We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.
Elizabeth Goudge
#52. The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, sold consciences, bought women, and rampant drunkenness.
Emile Zola
#53. Hallelujah"
"Your faith was strong but you needed proof.
You saw her bathing on the roof.
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.
She tied you to a kitchen chair,
she broke your throne, and she cut your hair.
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah ...
Leonard Cohen
#55. Making the decision to leave Valve strikes me as right up there with turning down the throne to Narnia, but then call me an idealist, and I guess I probably wouldn't want to spend my whole life making new hats for Team Fortress 2 either.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#56. I wil not heat treason from my own daughter
What will you do behead me for treason? We are not an amry at war
We are an army at war! This is your brother's rightful throne that we are talking about
Philippa Gregory
#57. You are the light of my life and I believe in you.
David Gaider
#59. Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#60. In any case I would cut myself a path to the throne even if some bastard-born herder had fathered me on a gutter-whore - genealogy can work for me or I can cut down the family tree and make a battering ram. Either way is good.
Mark Lawrence
#61. I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
G.K. Chesterton
#62. Church and court, it's all the same - pews, a throne, a God, the accused.
Mitchell S. Jackson
#63. He has murdered anyone who would try to steal his throne - and even executed those only suspected of plotting against him.
Anonymous
#64. One last time - you have to wear this mask one last time, and then you can bury Celaena Sardothien forever.
Sarah J. Maas
#65. Throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things
Charles Dickens
#66. I want Prince Charming to ride up on a white horse and carry me off to his castle. The only difference between me and other girls is once I get there, I want him to bend me over the throne and pull my hair while he fucks me hard and calls me names.
Stylo Fantome
#67. Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.
Beth Moore
#68. Good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a
Charles Dickens
#69. Seated atop the creature was a mermaid. She carried a crossbow. A sword hung from her hip. Her coppery hair, cut short, was angled over her forehead and cheekbones. Her green eyes blazed with fury.
'Go, Sera!' Becca shouted. 'Take back your throne!
Jennifer Donnelly
#70. After the heavy rain, we want to see the hot sun on the throne! After the hot sun, we want to see the heavy rain on the throne! Too see the same thing or the same person on the throne brings disaster!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
George R R Martin
#72. 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
#73. Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#74. In conclusion it may be said that the Figure like unto a Son of Man, represents a supernatural Person, for He comes with the clouds, is conducted to the throne of God, and a universal and eternal kingdom if given Him.
Edward J. Young
#75. One of my biggest concerns was how defensive the fans would be over The REV's drum throne. I'm grateful they have been welcoming.
Mike Portnoy
#76. Where the first Adam sought to break free of his created rank and ascend to the throne of God, the last Adam - who is God in his very nature - left his throne and descended to our misery.
Michael S. Horton
#77. In any case, her fight was not over yet - not nearly over. It had only begun. And yes, Cleo would be strong. Just as her father and Emilia had asked her to be. She would be strong. She would reclaim her rightful throne. She would be queen.
Morgan Rhodes
#78. How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the despondencies of our souls.
Stephen Charnock
#79. John's heart was hardened against the Lord. His father was God's minister, the ambassador of the King of Heaven, and John could not bow before the throne of grace without first kneeling to his father.
James Baldwin
#80. The whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.
John Owen
#81. Let him! He is great but in his greatness he is no happier than we in our conflict! Goodness would not make evil; and what else hath he made? but let him sit on his vast solitary throne, creating worlds to make eternity less burthensome to his immense existence.
George Gordon Byron
#82. The Hierarchic Qualm: The sword kills. But the arm moves the sword. Is the arm to blame for murder? No. The mind moves the arm. Is the mind to blame? No. The mind has sworn an oath to duty, and that duty moves the mind, as written by the Throne. So it is that a servant of the Throne is blameless.
Seth Dickinson
#83. In his first week on the throne, he vowed to make peace with all the nations we've ever warred with, cut military spending in half, funnel the money to education, and ... oh, yes, and phase out the empire itself, instating some ridiculous people's republic with elected officials.
Lindsay Buroker
#84. Throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was
Charles Dickens
#85. of the birthright of Lord Rudra's successors.' Shiva was getting increasingly uncomfortable. 'Now that Lord Rudra's successor is here, it is time for him to ascend the throne of Kashi,' continued Athithigva. 'It will be my honour to serve you, My Lord.' Shiva almost choked on a combination of
Amish Tripathi
#86. As long as Christ sits on the throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#87. was, and who is still to come; from the sevenfold Spirit* before his throne; 5 and from Jesus Christ. He is the faithful witness to these things, the first
Anonymous
#88. throne, O God, endures forever and ever. Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity; You love righteousness and hate wickedness.
Bart D. Ehrman
#89. The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne,
And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)
Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#90. I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it. And
George R R Martin
#91. the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of
Charles Dickens
#92. Clothe yourself with wisdom like a robe, put knowledge upon you like a crown, and be seated upon the throne of perception.'90
Margaret Barker
#93. When we appeal to the throne of grace we do so through Mary, honoring God by honoring His Mother, imitating Him by exalting her, touching the most responsive chord in the sacred heart of Christ with the sweet name of Mary.
Robert Bellarmine
#94. I'd hate for you to waste away into nothing. It'd be a shame to lose the most beautiful woman in the world so soon into her immortal, wicked life.
Sarah J. Maas
#95. Their sneak-out was over. But by then it was too late. In his mind, Katherine I was already becoming Katherine XIX. She would soon retake the throne that, all along, had rightfully been hers.
John Green
#96. 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
#97. Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life.
Steve Farrar
#99. It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space.
B.J. Novak
#100. I am a prince(ss) of peace, sitting on the throne of poise, directing my kingdom of activity.
Shakuntala Devi
