Sceptre

Famous quotes containing the word sceptre:

“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 placed on the bier.”
—Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)

“Give me a staff of honor for mine age,
But not a sceptre to control the world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

““Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds,
O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon,
There is not nothing, no, no, never nothing,
Like the clashed edges of two words that kill.””
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)