Crowns Quote by Elizabeth Montagu Download Open image “The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.” — Elizabeth Montagu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crowns Fortune Muse Refuse Virtue Wealth
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I try to indulge my muse whenever I am able to get away from it all. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire. — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die. — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman. — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau a good… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you. — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
My featherbed is deep and soft, and there I’ll lay you down, I’ll dress you all in yellow silk and on your head a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its head and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The Son of God goes forth to war,A kingly crown to gain;His blood red banner streams afar:Who follows in His train?Who best can drink… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness! — Bernadette Soubirous Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
