The institution of the throne is an anachronistic, feudal institution perfectly adapted to the use of anachronistic feudal-minded groups.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
Opposing US  Ambassador  Joseph Grew's recommendation for the Emperor's retention in postwar  Japan. Quoted in Lee Giovanitti and Fred Freed  The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb (1960).

Let judges also remember that Solomon's throne was supported by lions on both sides; let them be lions, but yet lions under the throne.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.6,'Of  Judicature'.

   La femme marie¤  e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  Physiologie du mariage.

  In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the L of hosts: the whole earth isfull of hisglory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 6:1^4.

And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 4:6^7.

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And thesea gave up the dead whichwere in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And deathand hell were cast intothelake of fire.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 20:11^14.

The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble. See Shakespeare 764:23.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.2,'A Game of Chess'.

Their lot forbad: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined: Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.

-Gray,Thomas
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.65^8.

Nor second he, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of ecstasy, The secrets of th'abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of place and time: 370 The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.

-Gray,Thomas
  Of Milton. The Progress of Poesy, l.95^102.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

-Inge,William Ralph
  Philosophy of Plotinus, vol.2, lecture 22.

Down to Gehenna or up to theThrone, He travels fastest who travels alone.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  The Story of the Gadsbys,'L'Envoi'. The poem was later renamed 'The Winners' (1912).

But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 2, stanza 23. buxom = 'yielding'.

To sum up: your father, whom you love, dies, you are his heir, you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his younger brother popped on to histhrone and into his sheets, thereby offending both legal and natural practice. Now why exactlyare you behaving in this extraordinary manner.

-Stoppard, SirTom originally Tom Straussler
  To Hamlet. Rosecrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, act1.

   Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King, dedication, l.24^7.