CROWN

Related Subjects: Kings, Queen, Throne

1. There is a crown for us all somewhere.—J. M. BARRIE, Tommy and Grizel
   

2. Many a crown covers bald foreheads.—ELIZABETH B. BROWNING, Aurora Leigh
   

3. Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.—CARLYLE, Past and Present
   

4. A crown! what is it?
   It is to bear the miseries of a people!
   To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents,
   And sink beneath a load of splendid care!—HANNAH MORE, Daniel
   

5. The royal crown cures not the headache.—Proverb
   

6. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

7. My crown is in my heart, not on my head;
   Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones,
   Nor to be seen: my crown is call'd content;
   A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
   

8. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
   And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
   Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,
   No son of mine succeeding.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

9. For within the hollow crown
   That rounds the mortal temples of a king
   Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,
   Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
   

10. Woe to the Crown that doth the Cowl obey!—WORDSWORTH, Ecclesiastical Sonnets