Sceptre Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre. — Johannes Kepler
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
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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… — Henry Ward Beecher
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend… — Edmund Burke
The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world. — Antoine-Marin Lemierre
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth… — William Shakespeare
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to… — William Shakespeare
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… — Lewis Carroll
Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king. — Jose Saramago
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… — Edith Evans

Who Wrote These Sceptre Quotes

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