The Independent on Sunday, August 8, 1999
Of the Queen Mother.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778) British politician
Chatham Correspondence, Speech, March 2, 1770, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Quoted by Lord Mahon, "greater than the throne itself", in History of England, vol. v., p. 258.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
James Russell Lowell The Present Crisis
St. 8
The Present Crisis (1844)
Context: Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record
One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word;
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,—
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Address to the Legislative Body (December 1813) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s_Addresses/Part_V#Address_to_the_Legislative_Body,_December,_1813.; he here echoes the remark attributed to Louis XIV L'état c'est moi ( "The State is I" or more commonly: "I am the State.")
“A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lini
(15 October 1993)
Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1906–1975) King of Saudi Arabia
Speech, after he took power, in 1964. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4283169
“Prejudice supports thrones, ignorance altars.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Vorurteil stützt die Throne, Unwissenheit die Altäre.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 65.
“On the throne of the world, any delusion becomes fact.”
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 12
