Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?
Robert Walpole

Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
George Noory

Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
George H. Walker

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

The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.
Jane Grey

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
Winifred Holtby

The crown of literature is poetry.
W. Somerset Maugham

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.
Frank Carlucci

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
James Shirley

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
Mark Akenside

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.
Giraldus Cambrensis

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

There are no crown princes at Ford.
Edsel Ford

Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.
John Lothrop Motley

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

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

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

Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown.
Howard Koch

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare

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