Crown Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old crown quotes, crown sayings, and crown proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. William Shakespeare
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. Marcus Tullius Cicero
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. Frederick The Great
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. Alfred Lord Tennyson
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. Winifred Holtby
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory. Ovid
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. Pearl Bailey
Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown. Howard Koch
If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. Welsh Proverb
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory. Aberjhani
Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them. George R.R. Martin
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear. Christopher Morley
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. Friedrich von Schiller
A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns. John Milton
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. Oscar Wilde
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy. George Bancroft
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. Elizabeth I
To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns. Gordon Lightfoot
A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much. Lloyd Alexander
He that has no cross will have no crown. Francis Quarles
A good woman is worth, if she were sold, the fairest crown that's made of purest gold. John Wodroephe
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. Juvenal
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. William Penn
Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart. Kabir
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. Franz Kafka
A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly. Lloyd Alexander
If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. Thomas Carlyle
A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor. Virgil
He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole. Eustachius
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end. John Webster
As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king. Anthony Liccione
Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation. Walter Lang
Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too. Alexander Pope
I ask not for any crown / But that which all may win; / Nor try to conquer any world / Except the one within. Louisa May Alcott
Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns. Shannon L. Alder
A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made. Francis Bacon
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. William Blake
This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy. Friedrich Nietzsche
Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns. Thomas Carlyle
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown. Victor Hugo
Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside. Dame Julie Andrews
A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see. T. F. Hodge
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Gilbert K. Chesterton
A crown is no cure for a headache. American Proverb
The crown is, according to the saying, the 'fountain of honour'; but the treasury is the spring of business. Walter Bagehot
America! America! / God shed His grace on thee / And crown thy good with brotherhood / From sea to shining sea!. Katherine Lee Bates
I will cling to the old rugged cross, / And exchange it some day for a crown. George Bennard
You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. William Jennings Bryan
No crown carries such royalty with it as doth humility; no monument gives such glory as an unsullied name; no worldly gain can equal that which comes from observing God's laws. Eleazar of Worms
There are no crown-wearers in Heaven who were not cross-bearers here below. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Let grace be the beginning, grace the consummation, grace the crown. The Venerable Bede
The wicked have a never-dying worm and the godly a never-fading crown. Thomas Watson
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. William Shakespeare (King Henry VI)
I will not wear a crown of gold where my Master wore a crown of thorns. Godfrey de Buillon
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. Friedrich von Schiller
If you put on a crown, somebody will try to take your head. Lazlo Ferran
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. Albert Camus
The Muse in the tower, / whose debt you enthrone / Those jewels that you borrow, / —her crown still on loan. Kurt Philip Behm
America / Bright freedom's crown / Bought with patriots blood for thee. / May thy song abound / And forever resound / Across all the lands and the seas. Timothy Ivan Brumley
My sister this morning / When you walked out that door / Surely the sun couldn't have been shining / When you forgot your crown / Have you forgotten / Who you really are / A queen in every right / Don't forget your crown. Chelsea Blues
I wear the crown of shade / These people know my name / This crown hides all my shame / My soul no longer pains / I am not ashamed / I am the queen of shade. Bjorn Duphot
Crowning a clown won't make him a king. American Proverb
Crown Him with many crowns, / The Lamb upon His throne; / Hark! how the heavenly anthem drowns / All music but its own. / Awake my soul, and sing / Of Him who died for thee; / And hail Him as thy matchless King / Through all eternity. Matthew Bridges