Top 100 Quotes About Crowned
#1. People kept on talking about the true king of Ankh-Morpork, but history taught a cruel lesson. It said - often in words of blood - that the true king was the one who got crowned."
Terry Pratchett
#2. The most pure form of the movement of rebellion is thus crowned with the heart-rending cry
of Karamazov: if all are not saved, what good is the salvation of one only?
Albert Camus
#3. He crowned her with roses, girded her with verbena, in the costume of an amorous holocaust.
Josephin Peladan
#4. Let us bless thee at all times and forget not
how thou hast
forgiven our iniquities,
healed our diseases,
redeemed our lives from destruction,
crowned us with lovingkindness and
tender mercies,
satisfied our mouths with good things,
renewed our youth like the eagle's.
Arthur Bennett
#5. The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus ending the 'Time of Troubles' sparked by Ivan the Terrible's death.
Saul David
#6. Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.
Eugen Sandow
#7. In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#8. The spirit of the year, like bacchant crowned, With lighted torch goes careless on his way; And soon bursts into flame the maple's spray, And vines are running fire along the ground.
Edith M. Thomas
#10. Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
Lucretius
#11. If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the relations, thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom.
Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
#12. Can Christ be in thou heart and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in thy soul and thou hear no scuffle?
William Gurnall
#13. Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
Thomas Paine
#14. Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.
Akhenaton
#15. You walk through the right way, you will be crowned.
You walk through the wrong way, you will be drowned.
Bambang Purwadi
#16. By the time the seasons turned through four more reapings, he had been crowned king of Yudah. By the time I was counted a man, he had added the crown of the kingdom of Israel
Geraldine Brooks
#17. In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.
Alex Shoumatoff
#18. The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, who changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo crowned his head with the leaves and ordered that forever after, the tree should be sacred to him.
Dorothea Dix
#19. Beheld a power whose head was crowned with signs of victory.
Dante Alighieri
#20. Power...Born out of nature, Coveted by men; Wars rage on, And victors are crowned. But true power can never be lost or won. True power comes from within.
Emily Thorne
#21. He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
John Keats
#22. There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.
Thomas Jefferson
#23. In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
Johannes Tauler
#24. We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting.
Susa Young Gates
#26. Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.
Ernest Holmes
#27. In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.
Thomas Jefferson
#28. The lunatic who thinks he is a crowned head may be, in a sense, happy, but his happiness is not of a kind that any sane person would envy.
Bertrand Russell
#29. When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and offer the Way.
Laozi
#30. I was in a modeling contest when I was 16. People don't think it's different, modeling versus beauty pageants, but it is. As a model, you're still an individual. When you are crowned a Miss, you are representative of a lot.
Stephanie Sigman
#31. Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.
Ephrem The Syrian
#32. Eating together happily can best be crowned by the vegetarian foods.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. Verily this is the very crown of my misfortunes, that men's opinions for the most part look not to real merit, but to the event; and only recognise foresight where Fortune has crowned the issue with her approval.
Boethius
#35. Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.
Robert Bridges
#37. He'd shoved his toque and mitts into the sleeve of his parka when he'd come in the night before, and now, thrusting his right arm into the armhole, he hit the blockage. At a practiced shove the pompom of the toque crowned the cuff followed by his mitts, like a tiny birth.
Louise Penny
#38. Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.
Oliver Goldsmith
#39. All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem (25) To have thee crowned withal.
William Shakespeare
#40. The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#41. We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
Joshua A. Norton
#42. The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
St. Jerome
#43. This is not a university town full of philosophies; it is a Zion of the hundred sieges raging with religions; not a place where resolutions can be voted and amended, but a place where men can be crowned and crucified.
G.K. Chesterton
#44. Yea, he who is a true king of men, will not say to himself, 'Lo! I am worthy to be crowned with laurels;' but rather will he say to himself, 'What more is there that I may do to make the world the better because of my endeavors?
Howard Pyle
#45. The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.
George Washington
#46. Till her appointed course be run;
Till on the darkness faint her breath
Flown to the silent void, and Death
Sit crowned upon the ashen sun.
("The Testimony of the Suns")
George Sterling
#47. Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.
Mason Cooley
#48. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.
Ambrose Bierce
#49. Christmas Day 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne "Holy Roman Emperor" in the Basilica of St. Peter. The congregation acclaimed him as "Augustus," and Leo prostrated himself at Charlemagne's feet.
Karen Armstrong
#50. Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
Marcus Garvey
#51. In the circle of successful living, prayer is the hub that holds the wheel together. Without our contact with God we are nothing. With it, we are 'a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor.
Conrad Hilton
#52. The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.
George Washington
#53. Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not that man civilized whose reason sits the crowned monarch of his brain - whose passions are his servants?
Robert Green Ingersoll
#54. At the Olympic Games, it isn't the most beautiful or strongest who are crowned, but those who compete.
Aristotle.
#55. I have brought you the rose of love, and you have crowned me, in these dark hours, with their thorns.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#56. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. Psalm 8:3-5
Beth Moore
#57. Your face was furrowed by the plow of grief, and blood flowed freely from Your thorn-crowned brow; such
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#58. Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B
. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.
Lord Chesterfield
#59. Quick now, here, now, always-
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
T. S. Eliot
#60. Don't blame us," said my mother. "We didn't blow up half of Court, steal a dozen cars, call out a murderer in the middle of a crowd, or get our teenage friend crowned queen."
"Actually," said Abe, "I did blow up half of Court.
Richelle Mead
#61. Caroline, beside herself, dragged me down to her, her breast was against mine, and by a circular movement seemed to caress it. The pretty strawberries which crowned her breasts, jealous at meeting others as fair, endeavoured to engage them in combat.
Felicite De Choiseul-Meuse
#62. A crowned queen was never treated with more reverence than I was by those whole-souled western boys ... And for seventeen long years I was just their little sister, sharing both their news of joy and sorrow from home.
Annie Oakley
#63. Here come the hum the golden bees
Underneath full blossomed trees,
At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
James Russell Lowell
#64. Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
D.H. Lawrence
#65. I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
Carolyn Wells
#66. I told everyone you didn't go poof, but they just looked at me funny," said Maddie. Cedar shook her head. "You said, 'Tiny crow crowned unconfused with a cloud.'
Shannon Hale
#67. The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#68. People in this arena weren't crowned for their compassion
Suzanne Collins
#69. The head that once was crowned with thorns Is crowned with glory now.
Tom Kelley
#70. Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
#71. There was no mistaking; he was a King on his throne... and I crowned him.
Jessica M. Collette
#72. I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.
Curtis Jackson
#73. Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust
March with its peck of dust,
Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
Nor even May, whose flowers
One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.
Christina Rossetti
#74. The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
Plato
#75. To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
Charles Caleb Colton
#76. If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned,
John Calvin
#77. Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.
Mason Cooley
#78. The lost and found the Cause hath crowned, The Day of Days is here.
William Morris
#79. The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Thomas Hobbes
#80. There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
Samuel Smiles
#81. A little while back, I won a couple of contests and was crowned the Funniest Kid Comic in all of New York. Not just New York City, but the whole state!
James Patterson
#82. Pippin was crowned the first king of the Carolingian dynasty in the city of Soissons, in a brand-new sacred ceremony that involved anointing with holy oil in the manner of an Old Testament theocratic king.*
Susan Wise Bauer
#83. Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.
Aristotle.
#84. When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour.
Kate Williams
#85. It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.
Terry Pratchett
#86. There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned
Henry Timrod
#87. KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.
Ambrose Bierce
#88. Harold, according to some historians, crowned himself with his own hand, without any religious ceremony; and renewing in his heart the ancient spirit of his ancestors, he conceived a hatred for Christianity.
Augustin Thierry
#89. Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.
Vladimir Lenin
#90. One thing being crowned a queen in Wonderland has taught me: Power is impotent unless it's cultivated with risks.
A.G. Howard
#91. Be the ghost of the empty streets! You shall be crowned with the touch of great inspirations!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#92. The Father of Glory (Ephesians 1:17), sent the Lord of Glory to lift up the man who had been crowned with the Glory, but had fallen from the Glory, back into the Glory of His Presence.
Brim Billye
#93. Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
John Sterling
#94. The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.
Francis Quarles
#95. In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#96. A throng of bearded men in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and other bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#97. Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.
Baltasar Gracian
#98. Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand!
Marcus Garvey
#99. The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.
Gail Carriger
#100. I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.
Robert Green Ingersoll
