(128 quotes found)
“In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
William Shakespeare
“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
“Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.”
Althea Gibson
“My crown is in my heart, not in my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen; my crown is called contentment; A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy”
“Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.”
Desiderius Erasmus
“A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.”
Frederick The Great
“Each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens.”
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown”
William Penn
“The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.”
Thomas Hobbes
