Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe. — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me! — Elizabeth of Hungary Copy Share Image
Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration;… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Christian worship must contain both the cross and the crown. Sing of majesty, and sing of mercy. — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
...tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say . . . as… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I'm going down 2 Alphabet Street I'm gonna crown the first girl that I meet I'm gonna talk so sexy She'll want… — Prince Copy Share Image
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As Trevor Noah recently quipped, the US appears ready to crown its first African dictator: Donald Trump. — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image