Crowns Quotes:

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

- Achy Obejas

topic: Pride, Joy, Crowns

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

- Albert Camus

topic: Justice, Crowns, Slave

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Foundation, Crowns, Stones, Edifice

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Reign, Fickle, Crowns

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

- Althea Gibson

topic: Tennis, Champion, Crowns

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

- Aneurin Bevan

source: In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1973) vol. 2, ch. 13

topic: Political, Crowns, Pieces, Crown Of Thorns

When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.

- Ben E. King

topic: Fun, Crowns, Records, Drifters

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

- Bernard Bailyn

source: Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.203, Harvard University Press

topic: Together, Crowns, Sovereign, Actuality

Some of us want the crown before the cross.

- Billy Graham

topic: Choices, Crowns, Want

All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.

- Brigham Young

source: Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.150

topic: Intelligent, Crowns, Trials

The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Monday, Morning, Crowns

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

- Carl Yastrzemski

topic: Choices, Crowns

Yes, beloved reader, our God reigneth, and if we crown Him Lord of all, Lord of our soul, Lord of our body, Lord of all the circumstance in our lives, we shall find that He is able to subdue all things unto Himself.

- Carrie Judd Montgomery

topic: Soul, Crowns, Body

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

- Charles Dickens

topic: Self, Words Of Wisdom, Crowns, Swindlers, Swindling

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

- Charles James Fox

source: "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 41), 1997.

topic: Hate, Men, Crowns

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Heaven, Crowns, Crosses

Were all on a golden journey-every one of us. A journey inspired by golden dreams, and at the end awaits a golden crown of righteousness....please remember that every step is to be cherished. Every single one...

- Chris Heimerdinger

topic: Dream, Journey, Crowns

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

- Christopher Paolini

topic: Men, Crowns, Fame, Renown

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

- Clare Boothe Luce

topic: Mean, Age, Crowns, Crown Of Thorns

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown..

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Crowns, Embroidery, Sides, Threads Of Life

When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

- Dave Parker

topic: Crowns, Brown, Turns, Batting

All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume.

- Edmond Rostand

topic: White, Rose, Crowns

There are no crown princes at Ford,

- Edsel Ford

topic: Crowns

Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

topic: Crowns, Royalty, Foreheads

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

topic: Kings, Reality, Crowns, Queen Of England

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

- Elizabeth I

topic: Suffering, Crowns, Reputation, Unworthy

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

- Elizabeth Montagu

topic: Crowns, Muse, Virtue

Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.

- Elizabeth Oakes Smith

source: Elizabeth Oakes SMITH, John KEESE (of Newburyport, Mass.) (1843). “The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese”, p.163

topic: Life, Crowns, Defeat

How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

- Elizabeth of Hungary

topic: Catholic, Gold, Crowns, Christian Humility, Crown Of Thorns

From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.

- Eugene V. Debs

topic: Feet, Crowns, Proud, Bolsheviks

If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Light, Use, Crowns

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Crowns, Crosses, Deserve

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Lying, Bed, Crowns

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

- Franz Kafka

topic: Vices, Crowns, Literature

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

- Frederick The Great

topic: Hate, Rain, Crowns, After The Rain, Rains Beauty

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Humility, Crowns, Modest

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

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Fighting, Power, Crowns

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

topic: Greatness, Guilt, Crowns, Diminish

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Christian, Crowns, Obedience

Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Winning, Shining, Crowns

The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.

- Gavin Esler

topic: Hands, Knives, Crowns

There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel.

- Geerhardus Vos

source: Geerhardus Vos (2015). “Grace and Glory”, p.63, Booklassic

topic: Offering, Law, Crowns, Legalism

So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown.

- George Bennard

source: The Old Rugged Cross (1913 hymn)

topic: Easter, Crowns, Lasts, Rugged

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

- George Eliot

topic: Spiritual, Men, Crowns, Forfeit, Backsliding

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

- George Noory

topic: Leader, Wish, Crowns

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Men, Crowns, Fool, Truth Be Told

How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

- George R. R. Martin

source: George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.123, Bantam

topic: Kings, Crow, Crowns, Dine

No one who wears a crown is ever safe.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Crowns, Safe

It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Girl, Victory, Crowns

Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Fighting, Men, Crowns

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.

- Gerald Massey

source: Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.138

topic: Hope, Kings, Crowns

Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.

- Giuseppe Garibaldi

source: Letter to Lincoln on August 06, 1863. "Garibaldi (Great Lives Observed)". Book by Denis Mack Smith, 1969.

topic: Treasure, Titles, Crowns

Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.

- Gloria Estefan

source: "McAleese apologises for Nazi remarks" by Paul Marinko and Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2005.

topic: Crowns, Want, Lasts

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

- Gordon Lightfoot

source: Song: Sit Down Young Stranger

topic: Crowns, Thorns, Crown Of Thorns

You are the crown of creation, and you've got no place to go.

- Grace Slick

topic: Crowns, Creation

In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it protects the perineum from injury, a protection accomplished by slicing through perineal skin, connective, tissue, and muscle.

- Henci Goer

source: Henci Goer (1995). “Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature”, p.276, Greenwood Publishing Group

topic: Medicine, Skins, Crowns, Inconsistency

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Age, Crowns, Youth, Wrenches

O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Fall, Crowns, Errands, Dead Poets, Crown Of Thorns

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

- Herbert Kaufman

source: Herbert Kaufman (1910). “The Winning Fight”

topic: Vision, Thrones, Crowns, Seats

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Mean, Twelve, Crowns

The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.

- Horace Walpole

topic: Alarms, India, Crowns

Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.

- Huey Long

source: Huey Long's note written on banners used in the 1928 gubernatorial election, as quoted in Hugh Davis Graham "Huey Long" (p. 39), 1970.

topic: Kings, Men, Crowns

After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress.

- Hugh Reginald Haweis

source: Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.306

topic: Sleep, Progress, Crowns

Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous step backwards--a step that has been responsible for more human misery than any other idea in known history.

- Isaac Bonewits

topic: Ideas, Crowns, Facts, Monotheism

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Cost, Crowns, Useless, Unworthy, Uselessness

We either crucify or crown Jesus by our lives.

- J. Vernon McGee

topic: Jesus, Crowns

Payne nailing him in the face woke him up. George brought him back his independence. But Beth handed him his crown.

- J.R. Ward

topic: Independence, Crowns, Faces, Beth

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

- Jack Welch

topic: Responsibility, Leader, Crowns

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Crowns

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.

- Joe Greene

topic: Crowns, Rings, Super Bowl

Forget the haters! They just want the crown!

- Joel Brown

topic: Crowns, Want, Forget

The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.

- John Dunning

source: Resolution passed in the House of Commons, 6 April, 1780, in 'Parliamentary History of England' (T. C. Hansard, 1814) vol. 21, col. 347

topic: Crowns, Influence

The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory

- John Fletcher

topic: Justice, Heaven, Crowns

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

- John Ford

topic: Giving, Contentment, Crowns

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

- John Heywood

source: c.1607 A Woman Killed with Kindness, sc.7.

topic: Contentment, Crowns, Earth

Death to life is crown or shame.

- John Milton

topic: Crowns, Life Is, Shame

A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

- John Milton

topic: Night, Historical, Crowns, Sleepless Nights, Regal

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

- John Milton

topic: Mutual Love, Crowns, Engagement, Memorial Stone, Headstone

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

- John Wycliffe

source: "Typical English Churchmen". Book by John Neville Figgis, p. 15, 1909.

topic: Bishops, Crowns, Priests

IF YOU APPROACH THE WORLD WITH THE APRON OF A SERVANT,THEN YOU ARE ALLOWED TO GO PLACES THAT YOU CAN'T GO IF YOU APPROACH IT WITH THE CROWN OF A KING

- Jon Foreman

topic: Kings, Crowns, World, Aprons

When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.

- Josemaria Escriva

topic: Triumph, Crowns, Burden, Chastity Purity

It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.

- Julia Child

topic: Taken, Beef, Crowns, Fussy

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

source: "Legendary actress Julie Andrews turns the page". Interview with Joy Sewing, www.chron.com. June 6, 2012.

topic: Beautiful, Princess, Crowns, Looking Beautiful

Hey Belieber, never lower your head to anyone who criticizes you, your crown can not drop my princess.

- Justin Bieber

topic: Princess, Hey, Crowns, Beliebers, My Princess

One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

- Juvenal

topic: Crowns, Crime, Crosses

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

- Juvenal

topic: Different, Crowns, Bears

Ah yes, the man or the crown. I'm afraid some can't tell the difference.

- Kiera Cass

topic: Men, Differences, Crowns

Trust in God, that's where the crown is at. It's not in what you get, it's what happens after that.

- KRS-One

source: Song: Trust, Album: Spiritual Minded

topic: Crowns, Trust In God

One who wants to wear the crown, bears the crown.

- Lee Min-ho

topic: Crowns, Want, Bears

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

- Leigh Hunt

topic: Dream, Sleep, Crowns, Lethe, Sleeping In

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

- Lloyd Alexander

topic: Crowns, Discomfort, Adornment

A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

- Lloyd Alexander

topic: Men, Pigs, Crowns

That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.

- Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

source: King v. Ginever, 6 T. R. 735, 1796.

topic: Crowns, Corporations, Creatures

If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, 'you will receive a never-fading crown of glory'

- Louis de Montfort

source: St. Louis de Montfort (1983). “The Secret of the Rosary”, p.13, TAN Books

topic: Rosary, Saint, Crowns, Praying The Rosary, Blessed Mother

It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.

- Louise Bogan

topic: Crowns, Taste, Impossible

Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.

- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

topic: Thinking, Crowns, Benefits, Indebted

One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown

- Marcy Kaptur

topic: Religious, Purpose, Crowns

We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: World, Looks, Crowns

O Beginningless, Immortal, Timeless, Incomprehensible and Unimaginable Lord, the God of all and Creator of all creation, the Foreseer and Savior of all, as I have hoped in You, I thank You, that You have brought me to this hour, as I approach the crown of Your righteousness.

- Marina of Aguas Santas

topic: Humility, Crowns, Hours

I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

- Mark Gatiss

source: "Mark Gatiss: off with his head!". Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2012.

topic: Struggle, Play, Crowns

Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; . . .

- Marsilio Ficino

topic: Power, Feet, Crowns

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

- Martin Luther

topic: Crowns, Virtue, Obedience

Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Suffering, Bears, Crowns

What would I do with starry crowns except to cast them at His feet?

- Mary Slessor

topic: Feet, Crowns, Casts

Christian worship must contain both the cross and the crown. Sing of majesty, and sing of mercy.

- Matt Redman

source: Twitter post from Oct 04, 2013

topic: Christian, Crowns, Majesty, Christian Worship

The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world,

- Michel Chossudovsky

source: "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

topic: Islands, Crowns, Banking, Cayman Islands

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

- Monica Crowley

topic: Jewels, Crowns, Healthcare, Welfare State, Crown Jewels

The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?

- Mos Def

topic: Moon, Hip Hop, Crowns

We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the Cross. But in God's economy, the way up is down.

- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

topic: Pain, Crowns, Laziness, Without Pain

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Art, Crowns, World

He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.

- Paul Klee

topic: Beautiful, Humble, Crowns

My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

- Peter Tosh

topic: Philosophy, Crowns, Bears, Tribulation

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.

- Philip Massinger

topic: Cheerful, Looks, Crowns

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

- Plutarch

topic: Kings, Crowns, Sometimes

Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it.

- Queen Latifah

topic: Queens, Hey, Crowns, Reminding Yourself

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

- Queen Latifah

topic: Queens, Acting, Crowns, Acting Right

When the Revolutionary War ended in 1781, not everyone was celebrating. It is estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of the population back then were loyal to the British Crown and thus were not so thrilled when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.

- Rachel Martin

source: "What Happened To British Loyalists After The Revolutionary War?". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. July 3, 2015.

topic: War, Crowns, Yorktown

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

- Ralph Nader

topic: Order, Crowns, Founders

The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post-tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves.

- Robert Greene

topic: Waiting, Doubt, Crowns, Destined, Coronation

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

- Robert Herrick

source: Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

topic: Fighting, Victory, Crowns

It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

- Robert Herrick

source: 'The End'

topic: Fighting, Crowns, Ends

The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.

- Sadao Araki

source: "Sun's Son's Son". "TIME" Magazine, January 1, 1934.

topic: Crowns, Empires, Foundation

I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!

- Sigourney Weaver

topic: Fun, Three, Crowns, Freshman, Sophomore

If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We lie here enjoying timeless fame.

- Simonides of Ceos

topic: Lying, Fate, Crowns

Humility is royalty without a crown.

- Spencer W. Kimball

topic: Humility, Crowns, Royalty, Stay Humble, Christian Humility

It doesn't hurt to lose my crown, it hurts to lose.

- Steffi Graf

topic: Hurt, Failure, Crowns

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

- Terry Goodkind

topic: Honesty, Liars, Crowns

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

- Theodore Parker

topic: Shining, Soul, Crowns

I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.

- Theodore Tilton

source: Theodore Tilton, “Sir Marmaduke's Musings”

topic: Names, People, Crowns

The Lord has many lovers of His crown but few lovers of His Cross.

- Thomas a Kempis

topic: Crowns, Lovers, Lord

God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.

- Thomas Brooks

source: Thomas Brooks (1814). “Apples of Gold for Young Men and Women: and a Crown of Glory for Old Men and Women. Or, The Happiness of Being Good Betimes: and the Honour of Being an Old Disciple ...: Also, The Young Man's Objections Answered, and the Old Man's Doubts Resolved”, p.32

topic: Grace, Crowns, Mercy

Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

- Thomas Heywood

topic: Crowns, Kingdoms

If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false

- Tony Benn

topic: Queens, Advice, Crowns, Postage, Postage Stamps

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Fear, Crowns, Suits, Convicts

If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!

- W. S. Gilbert

topic: Cracks, Wages, Crowns

Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.

- Walter Lang

topic: Men, Crowns, Creation

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.

- Wilfrid Laurier

topic: Country, America, Crowns, Identical

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

topic: Power, Crowns, Fancy, Exertion

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

topic: Wake Up, Crowns, Bears

But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!

- William Cowper

topic: God, Art, Crowns

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

- William Jennings Bryan

topic: Gold, Crowns, Thorns

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Kings, Heart, Crowns

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Lying, Memorable, Crowns, Uneasy, Chimes

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Giving, Crowns, Longing, Robes

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

- Winifred Holtby

source: Winifred Holtby (2007). “Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir”, Bloomsbury Academic

topic: Inspirational Life, Understanding, Crowns, Understanding You

As Trevor Noah recently quipped, the US appears ready to crown its first African dictator: Donald Trump.

- Andre Naffis-Sahely

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Crowns, Firsts, Dictator

I will simply deny you the crown, and..... Live forever!

- Francis I of France

topic: Forever, Crowns, Deny

I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out Depeche Mode. But mostly I wanted stuff with pentagrams and crowns of thorns on it.

- Brian Posehn

source: "Random Rules: Brian Posehn". Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2006.

topic: Girl, Crowns, Thorns, Depeche Mode, Pentagrams

I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.

- Charles I of England

source: "VVith a Relation of the maner of his going to Execution" published by Special Authority, London: Printed by Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1649.

topic: Crowns, World, Remember

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

- Charles Williams

topic: Strong, Hands, Crowns, Strong Hands, Crown Of Thorns

I don't want to get them in trouble for crimes in the early '90s - but there was usually like one pub that was the soft touch in terms of you could get served under 18, and that pub was The Rose and Crown.

- Edgar Wright

topic: Rose, Crowns, Want

If the heart bleeds love, bare it, If the martyr's crown fits, wear it.

- Roger McGough

topic: Love, Heart, Crowns

You may have won the war, but you will never take my crown

- Ronnie Radke

topic: War, Crowns, May

Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition.... [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality.

- Frances Brooke

topic: Writing, Crowns, Immortality, Erudition

I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone

- Feist

source: Song: Monarch

topic: Yield, Giving, Crowns, Protect You

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Giving Up, Russia, Crowns, American Slavery, Slavery In America

I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Ambition, Crowns, Might, Monarchs

God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin

topic: Waiting, Crowns, Flesh

We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings!

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Easter, Suffering, Crowns, Christian Easter

I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.

- Frank Langella

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Crowns, Faces, My Own

Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes.

- Lord Byron

source: Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

topic: Passion, Crowns, Pique

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

- Franz Grillparzer

topic: Flower, Simplicity, Crowns

Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: 1821 Adonais, stanza 36.

topic: Drunk, Crowns, Woe, Draught

The kundalini of the supraconscious has nothing to do with the shushumna. That light comes down, from the crown center and has nothing to do with the opening. It descends and inundates.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Light, Crowns

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

- Christopher Morley

topic: Men, Crowns, Hardship, Crown Of Thorns

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

- Alexander Pushkin

topic: Asking, Crowns, Fool

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: 'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 75.

topic: Time, Sorrow, Crowns, Happier Times

There's no question about it. Beaumarie St. Claire and I, we created Irish DreamTime after GoldenEye hit. We made movies like Thomas Crown and The Matador. And in between my stints as James Bond, I'd go off and I'd do something like The Matador or Tailor of Panama, which was spy related, just so I could shake it up. It's a genre which really appeals to me.

- Pierce Brosnan

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Spy, Crowns, Tailors, Matadors, Dreamtime

The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.

- Ambrose

topic: Devil, Crowns, May

And finally, there's the seventh doorway, the Doorway of Oneness, which corresponds to the crown center, located at the top of the head. This doorway has to do with feeling whole and connected to all of life, connected to spirit

- Marci Shimoff

source: Source: theindiespiritualist.com

topic: Oneness, Feelings, Crowns

The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr's crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.

- Quentin Crisp

source: "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 15, 1968.

topic: Lying, Complaining, Crowns, Lamentation

The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Crowns, Problem

It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Book, Crowns, Half, Coronation

[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Love, Together, Crowns, Draught

The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]

- George Herbert

topic: Crowns, Royal, Headache

Lord, reserve for me a crown, And do not let my shares go down.

- John Betjeman

source: John Betjeman (2007). “Tennis Whites and Teacakes”, Hodder & Stoughton

topic: Crowns, Rewards, Lord

Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.

- Thomas a Kempis

topic: Peace, Inward, Crowns, Hold Fast, Above And Below

He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

- Thomas B. Macaulay

topic: Business, Ambition, Crowns

A crown should not sit easy on the head.

- George R. R. Martin

source: George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.764, Bantam

topic: Crowns, Easy, Should

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.384, Lulu.com

topic: Forever, Noble, Crowns, Crown Of Thorns

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

- Thomas Hardy

source: "The Man He Killed" l. 17 (1909)

topic: War, Bars, Crowns, Quaint

Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.

- John Gay

source: John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.219

topic: Ostriches, Crowns, Nodding

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

- Thomas Watson

topic: Purpose, Crowns, Free Will

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Rose, Crowns, Thorns, Crown Of Thorns

I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.

- Ray Lewis

source: "Sporting News Conversation: Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis". Interview with Steve Greenberg, www.sportingnews.com. October 28, 2009.

topic: Kings, Crowns, Lions

Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him.

- Timothy Keller

topic: Jesus, Crowns, Claims, Jesus Love, Following Jesus

You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

- Martial

topic: Crowns, Laurels

But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

topic: Suffering, Crowns, Bears

Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.

- Tom Petty

topic: Heart, Crowns, Sometimes

A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.

- Anuj

topic: Crowns, Definitions, Definition Of Leadership

The last act crowns the play.

- John Ruskin

topic: Play, Crowns, Lasts

When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.

- John Wesley

source: John Wesley (1797). “A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the people called Methodists ... A new edition”, p.4

topic: Crowns, Wreaths, Poor

Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Self, Smirk, Crowns, Crown Of Thorns, Self Inflicted

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Crowns, Bitterness, Worn

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

- Hafez

topic: Excellence, Wish, Crowns

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

- Halle Berry

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Crowns

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

- Desiderius Erasmus

topic: Two, Crowns, Guilty

The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

- Devdutt Pattanaik

topic: Age, Crowns, Determined

Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.

- Victor Hugo

source: Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.27

topic: Years, Lasts, Crowns

A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

- Robert Greene

source: Robert Greene, George Peele (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene and George Peele: With Memoirs of the Authors and Notes”, p.309

topic: Mind, Crowns, Kingdoms