Throne Quotes

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it’s sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“We may not die from age, but we grow weary with it.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“The Iron Throne will go to the man who has the strength to seize it.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“They raise us to be soft as silk, distract us with luxury and wealth beyond measure, so we never rock the boat that carries us. They expect us to be so bored by our power that we let them do the ruling in our stead. Behind every throne is a masked servant who seeks only to make a puppet of the one who sits on it.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“The Queen Who Never Was; what did Viserys ever have that she did not? A little sausage? Is that all it takes to be a king? Let Mushroom rule, then. My sausage is thrice the size of his.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“Queen, do not allow a commoner to dethrone you. Own that throne. You are royalty.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“The game of thrones takes many a queer turn.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“An empty throne is a dangerous one but a throne in the wrong persons hands is a destructive one so I prefer and empty one rather than having a tyrant”
― Raneem yacoub throne of deception

“When it rains, God sits on his throne and listens to his favorite music — the sound of thunder.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“The heart is the throne of God and the heart is the mother of all the desires!”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“A smart woman fixes her own crown. She does not dethrone other women from their own glory. For she knows on her own, she is strong.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“A king is not his throne nor his crown.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“His palace was a tent, his throne a saddle.”
― George R.R. Martin, The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones

“You kissed his mouth with mouths of flame: you made the hornèd god your own: You stood behind him on his throne: you called him by his secret name.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx Without a Secret

“The city of Heaven is the biggest city in all existence. Even down town is greater than all the cities of Earth put together. The land is made of clouds, and the sky is always blue. In the center of the city is a massive temple, the temple of God. Supposedly God sites on a throne in there, but not many angels have been.”
― J.S. Milik, Heaven's Blade: When Destiny Calls

“I know I shouldn’t think this way, but I don’t feel it’s fair. If Imperial Father did give me the throne back then, today, the person in control of the country would be me. The endings of a few of my brothers definitely wouldn’t turn out this way. -14th Prince”
― Tong Hua, Bu Bu Jing Xin/步步惊心

“I never really had a choice it
The throne was always the end goal whether I wanted it or not didn’t matter
All I could do now is rule fairly but doing that isn’t easy when the throne I sat at was built with lies and deception”
― Raneem yacoub throne of deception

“In this game of thrones appearing savage was a must even if it turned her stomach”
― Raneem yacoub throne of deception

“A woman of virtue does not desert her throne, even when stones are thrown. She sits tight on her throne, because she is a Queen.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“Here the walls have ears. Spies are stationed behind every drapery, curtain, arras. Your spies, the agents of your secret service: their assignment is to draft detailed reports on the palace conspiracies. The court teems with enemies, to such an extent that it is increasingly difficult to tell them from friends; it is known for sure that the conspiracy that will dethrone you will be made up of your ministers and officials. And you know that every secret service has been infiltrated by agents of the opposing secret service. Perhaps all the agents in your pay work also for the conspirators, are themselves conspirators; and thus you are obliged to continue paying them, to keep them quiet as long as possible.
Voluminous bundles of secret reports are turned out daily by electronic machines and laid at your feet on the steps of the throne. It is pointless for you to read them: your spies can only confirm the existence of the conspiracies, justifying the necessity of your espionage; and at the same time they must deny any immediate danger, to prove that their spying is effective. No one, for that matter, thinks you must read the reports delivered to you; the light in the throne room is inadequate for reading, and the assumption is that a king need not read anything, the king already knows what he has to know.”
― Italo Calvino

“Throne In Confusion by Stewart Stafford

The sacked castle casts smoke on the lake,
Cinders’ glow distinguishes it from the mist,
The only gallows the noble knights adorned,
Were ones lowering them onto their steeds.

Thundering warhorses charged the enemy,
Storming across such a gallant battlefield,
Mortal combat with axe, blade and sword,
For king, country and all of Heaven’s glory.

Intruders rush over a downed drawbridge,
Rotten and riddled in darkness incarnate,
To a peregrinating, riderless throne room,
A neophyte sovereign in gold leaf crown.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

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― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“We play with the gifts the Gods bestow upon us . And who are they to us? Either carpets to our thrones or casualties on the way.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“Get away from the person who you know doesn't need you, to not injure your personality, because you're the king of your throne.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Eldred cups his hands, and the branches of the throne shudder and begin to grow, sending up new green shoots to spiral into the air, leaves unfurling and flower buds bursting along the length of them. The roots of the ceiling begin to worm, lengthening like vines and crawling across the underside of the hill. There is a scent in the air, like a summer breeze, heavy with the promise of apples.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Lying on his bed feels like wiping my dirty peasant feet on the throne.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“She said I would lose my throne, but if I didn't continue the reforms, I would lose my country too. It had never been properly mine anyway, this throne, and it meant less to me than these lands and peoples who'd been entrusted to my hands.”
― Ijen Kim, The Sunset Emperor

“Queen Annet sits on a throne covered in powdery white moths, each one fluttering its wings a little, giving the whole thing the effect of a moving carpet.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir