Crowns Quotes - Page 6

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.

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.

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

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.

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

I draw the art for the writers. A lil' chibi of each author crowns their articles.

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

You are the crown of creation, and you've got no place to go.

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.

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

I don't want to get them in trouble for crimes in the early '90s - but there was usually like one pub that was the soft touch in terms of you could get served under 18, and that pub was The Rose and Crown.

The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.