#throne

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

#come #delicate #forgotten #god #into

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

#big #deception #flowing #god #his

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

— William Gurnall

#carry #debt #god #god hath #grace

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

#both #cup #distributes #ever #evil

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#every #every man #labor #lives #man

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#covered #only #throne #velvet

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

#am #come #everyone #i #i am

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

— Barry Cornwall

#night #oh #she #sits #smile

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

— Pierre Corneille

#considers #else #father #his #husband

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her. ↗

— King Edward VIII

#able #advantage #bride #course #gave