Sarcastic-observations Quote by Gore Vidal

“There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.”

— William Pitt

“I’m beginning to think that thrones make tyrants of us all.”

— V.E. Schwab

“I am afraid I am not quite so much the man of the world as might be good for me in some points. My…

— Jane Austen

“Kings and philosophers shit, and so do ladies. Even on the highest throne in the world, we are seated still upon our arses.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“He did not know how the world is simplified for kings. To them, all men are subjects.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If you are not a king, do not accept the throne, which is the sit of your downfall.”

— Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

“Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

— Anonymous

“What are palaces and equipages; what though a man could cover a continent with his title-deeds, or an ocean with his commerce; compared with…

— Brett McKay

“The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.”

— Charles Olson

“Only kings are arrogant enough to believe the world is too small to hold other men.”

— Julie Dao

“Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”

— John Milton

“Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself!…

— Hermann Hesse