quotes about Crowns
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Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
-- Achy Obejas -
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
-- Albert Camus -
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 -
Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
-- Althea Gibson -
Let us hope that the US (Democratic and Republican party) allows us, their European cultural and economical crown vassals, to liberate ourselves and deport the Muslims without them militarily intervening. We shouldn't forget that we have many allies in the US including a sizable faction of the Republican Party.
-- Anders Behring Breivik -
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
-- Aneurin BevanSource : In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1973) vol. 2, ch. 13
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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
-- Beatrix PotterSource : Beatrix Potter (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Beatrix Potter (Illustrated)”, p.1214, Delphi Classics
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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 -
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
-- Bernard BailynSource : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.203, Harvard University Press
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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 YoungSource : Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.150
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The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!
-- C. S. Lewis -
And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
-- Carl Yastrzemski -
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 -
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 -
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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 FoxSource : "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 41), 1997.
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There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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 -
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 -
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
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 -
When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown
-- Dave Parker -
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 -
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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 -
Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
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 -
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I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
-- Elizabeth I -
The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.
-- Elizabeth Montagu -
Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.
-- Elizabeth Oakes SmithSource : Elizabeth Oakes SMITH, John KEESE (of Newburyport, Mass.) (1843). “The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese”, p.163
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How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!
-- Elizabeth of Hungary -
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From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.
-- Eugene V. Debs -
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 -
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.
-- Francis Quarles -
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
-- Franz Kafka -
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
-- Frederick The Great -
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
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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 -
Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.
-- Gavin Esler -
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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 VosSource : Geerhardus Vos (2015). “Grace and Glory”, p.63, Booklassic
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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 BennardSource : The Old Rugged Cross (1913 hymn)
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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 -
Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
-- George Noory -
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All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.
-- George R. R. Martin -
How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?
-- George R. R. MartinSource : George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.123, Bantam
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No one who wears a crown is ever safe.
-- George R. R. Martin -
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 -
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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 -
Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.138
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Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.
-- Giuseppe GaribaldiSource : Letter to Lincoln on August 06, 1863. "Garibaldi (Great Lives Observed)". Book by Denis Mack Smith, 1969.
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Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
-- Gloria EstefanSource : "McAleese apologises for Nazi remarks" by Paul Marinko and Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2005.
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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
-- Gordon LightfootSource : Song: Sit Down Young Stranger
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You are the crown of creation, and you've got no place to go.
-- Grace Slick -
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 GoerSource : Henci Goer (1995). “Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature”, p.276, Greenwood Publishing Group
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Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
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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 -
Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.
-- Herbert KaufmanSource : Herbert Kaufman (1910). “The Winning Fight”
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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.
-- Honore de Balzac -
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 -
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Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.
-- Huey LongSource : Huey Long's note written on banners used in the 1928 gubernatorial election, as quoted in Hugh Davis Graham "Huey Long" (p. 39), 1970.
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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 HaweisSource : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.306
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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 -
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 -
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We either crucify or crown Jesus by our lives.
-- J. Vernon McGee -
Payne nailing him in the face woke him up. George brought him back his independence. But Beth handed him his crown.
-- J.R. Ward -
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 -
Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head
-- James A. Baldwin -
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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 -
The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.
-- John DunningSource : Resolution passed in the House of Commons, 6 April, 1780, in 'Parliamentary History of England' (T. C. Hansard, 1814) vol. 21, col. 347
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The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory
-- John Fletcher -
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Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.
-- John Ford -
All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.
-- John HeywoodSource : c.1607 A Woman Killed with Kindness, sc.7.
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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 -
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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 WycliffeSource : "Typical English Churchmen". Book by John Neville Figgis, p. 15, 1909.
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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 -
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 -
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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 -
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 AndrewsSource : "Legendary actress Julie Andrews turns the page". Interview with Joy Sewing, www.chron.com. June 6, 2012.
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Hey Belieber, never lower your head to anyone who criticizes you, your crown can not drop my princess.
-- Justin Bieber -
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
-- Juvenal -
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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
-- Juvenal -
Ah yes, the man or the crown. I'm afraid some can't tell the difference.
-- Kiera Cass -
Trust in God, that's where the crown is at. It's not in what you get, it's what happens after that.
-- KRS-OneSource : Song: Trust, Album: Spiritual Minded
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One who wants to wear the crown, bears the crown.
-- Lee Min-ho -
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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 -
A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
-- Lloyd Alexander -
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 -
That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.
-- Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron KenyonSource : King v. Ginever, 6 T. R. 735, 1796.
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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 MontfortSource : St. Louis de Montfort (1983). “The Secret of the Rosary”, p.13, TAN Books
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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 -
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 -
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 -