Thomas Crown Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated men in suits. it's like you've been giving the same performance for 20 years.

Pierce Brosnan

#3. A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.

James Thomas Fields

#4. Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

Thomas Heywood

#7. Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

Thomas Paine

#8. Every day is Sunday" - that wouldn't make a bad epitaph, would it?

Julian Barnes

#9. She should laugh at such ambitions on his part: nothing about him held any romance for her, not his crown, not his black heart, not his beautiful liar's face.

Sherry Thomas

#10. This is why Paine was careful to downplay the distinction between the rich and the poor. He wanted his American readers to focus on distant kings, not local grandees. He wanted them to break with the Crown, not to disturb the class order.

Nancy Isenberg

#11. An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.

Thomas Brooks

#12. Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.

Thomas Brooks

#13. The Holy Grail, the most precious of all Christ's bequests to man, lost these thousand years and more, and he could see it glowing in the sky like shining blood and about it, bright as the glittering crown of a saint, rays of dazzling shimmer filled the heaven. Thomas

Bernard Cornwell

#14. King's crowns are only crosses, but the cross of Christ is the only crown.

Thomas Watson

#15. And the thorny crown of this sad conception was that she whom he really did prefer in a cursory way to the rest, she who knew herself to be more impassioned in nature, cleverer, more beautiful than they, was in the eyes of propriety far less worthy of him than the homelier ones whom he ignored.

Thomas Hardy

#16. Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

Thomas Carlyle

#17. When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#18. It's there, even if you never see it till the end - that spark of individuality, of freedom.

Pierce Brown

#19. He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#20. I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

Anais Nin

#21. God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.

Thomas Brooks

#22. The Lord has many lovers of His crown but few lovers of His Cross.

Thomas A Kempis

#23. Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered ... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith ... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

Thomas Becket

#24. Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.

Gustave Flaubert

#25. I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#26. All he would say was that sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.

Kelly Braffet

#27. 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

#28. A Christian is a military person, he fights the Lord's battles, he is Christ's ensignbearer. Now, what though he endures hard fate, and the bullets fly about? He fights for a crown!

Thomas Watson

#29. Great minds don't think alike.

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

#30. Some passions are bodily, other spiritual. Bodily passions have their sources in the body, while spiritual ones come from external things. But love and temperance cut out both the one and the other: Love cuts out spiritual passions, and temperance bodily ones.

Maximus The Confessor

#31. Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.

Thomas A Kempis

#32. This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

Thomas Watson

#33. The lad stood before Durbeyfield, and contemplated his length from crown to toe.

Thomas Hardy