Crowns Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Fun, Records, Kind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.

  Herman Gorter

  Russia, Government, Land

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• I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Opposites, People, Gentleman

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• At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

  Robert Trout

  Patriotic, July, Usa

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• Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

  Pat Riley

  Life, Travel, Ambition

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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

  Two, Guilty, Pope

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• In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kings, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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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 in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

  Daniel Craig

  Sexy, Thinking, Games

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• Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.

  Huey Long

  Kings, Men, Every Man

  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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• The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heaven, Worn, Tribulation

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• How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Retirement, Age, Ease

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 99

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• My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play

  Francis Quarles

  Play, Judging, Soul

  'Epigram: Respice Finem'

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• Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Giving, Rubies

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 13

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• Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Dream, Men, Self

  "The Progress of a Biographer". Book by Hugh Kingsmill. Chapter "Hamlet Borgianized", p. 154, 1949.

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• Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Pieces, Politics

  In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1973) vol. 2, ch. 13

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• Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.

  Victor Hugo

  Years, Lasts

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.27

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• Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne

  Nas

  Thrones, Born, Crew

  Song: The World is Yours

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• The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Doe

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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

  Age, Youth, Entitled

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

  Peter Tosh

  Philosophy, Bears, Crosses

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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

  God, Spiritual, Humility

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• Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

  Lord Byron

  Clouds, Rocks, Long Ago

  Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• [Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Together, May

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• Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Law, Life And Death

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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• The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.

  John Dunning

  Influence, Ought

  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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