Crown Quotes

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare

Give, Put, Immortal

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare

Enjoy, Content, Seldom

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare

Lies, Head, Uneasy

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
Og Mandino

Art, End, Person

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Thomas Carlyle

Enemy, Fight, Victory

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Age, Play

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Times, Sorrow, Happier

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
Marie Antoinette

Alone, Mother, Husband

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.
Julie Andrews

Work, Beautiful, Looking

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich Schiller

Blame, Greatness, Guilt

The crown of literature is poetry.
W. Somerset Maugham

Poetry, Literature

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.
Andrew Jackson

Good, Here, Against

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
Ovid

Give, Victory, Gain

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.
William Booth

Place, Else, Ourselves

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
Daniel Craig

Movies, Sexy, Game

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
Desiderius Erasmus

Great, Two, Guilty

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Friedrich Schiller

Great, Fighting, Divine

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
Frederick The Great

Rain, Hat, Lets

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz Kafka

Beginning, Vice, Virtues

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
Pearl Bailey

Worth, Hurts, Wearing

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
Ralph Nader

Order, Founders, George

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
Elizabeth I

Rather, Reputation, Suffer

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
Elizabeth I

God, Brave, Soldiers

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
Pierre Corneille

Revenge, Hatred, Either

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
Elizabeth I

King, Bear, Wear

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.
James Thomas Fields

Life, Wife, Him

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Christopher Marlowe

Perfect, Sweet, Bliss

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft

Respect, Envy, Common

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.
James Buchan

Politics, School, Long

And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
Carl Yastrzemski

Time, Between, Choice

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