Crown Quotes
485 quotes by 394 authors
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Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears…
— Matthew Arnold
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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…
— Julia Child
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Satan is ever present, trying to destroy our glory and remove our crown. One of his most powerful tools is discouragement. Don't let your discouragement…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Fear Does Not Crown Champions.
— Michelle Waterson
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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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Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy…
— John Dryden
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I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown,…
— John Quincy Adams
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A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
— Frederick The Great
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To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
— Pierre Corneille
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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…
— Daniel Craig
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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
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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…
— Elizabeth I
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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…
— Elizabeth I
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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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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
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
— Franz Kafka
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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…
— Wilfrid Laurier
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The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things we could've done with the character.…
— Denis Leary
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That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
— Christopher Marlowe
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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…
— Og Mandino
Who Wrote These Crown Quotes
394 authors contributed a total of 485 Crown Quotes, led by these top contributors: