She Who Wears The Crown Quotes & Sayings

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house. — Franz Grillparzer

Every man a king, but no one wears a crown. — Huey Long

The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown. — James Stewart

Amber eyes slid to me. To my crown. Then Rhys's. "An emissary wears a golden crown. Is that a tradition in Prythian?"
"No," Rhysand said smoothly, "but she certainly looks good enough in one that can't resist. — Sarah J. Maas

The costume is great," I said to Lysander, "but a crown? Really?"
He glared at me, his black wings beating. I'd only been in his shop for thirty minutes, but I was pretty sure the guy already hated me. "It was my understanding that you were to go dressed as the goddess of witchcraft, and Hecate wears a crown."
"It's not really a crown, Soph," Jenna offered from her spot on a nearby white satin settee. "It's more like a tiara." She had her chin in her hand, and there was practically a little black rain cloud over her head. We had taken Vix to the airport, so Jenna was Sulky McSulkerton. — Rachel Hawkins

I don't like to badmouth people. But I'm the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I'm apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he's not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It's pathetic. — Queen Elizabeth II

She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she'll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes. — Holly Black

A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem — John Milton

Truth wears a crown of thorns — Maria Faustina Kowalska

His work is as it were, a sacred object and the true fruit of his life, and his aim in storing it away for a more discerning posterity will be to make it the property of mankind. An aim like this far surpasses all others, and for it he wears the crown of thorns which is one day to bloom into a wreath of laurel. All his powers are concentrated in the effort to complete and secure his work; just as the insect, in the last stage of its development, uses its whole strength on behalf of a brood it will never live to see; it puts its eggs in some place of safety, where, as it well knows, the young will one day find life and nourishment, and then dies in confidence. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, Ajay whispered. — Mark Frost

Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,
The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown. — William Shakespeare

While Melbourne and Sydney fight about who wears Australia's cultural crown, Canberra just gets on with it. — Judy Horacek

This is the greatest mystery of the human mind
the inductive leap. Everything falls into place, irrelevancies relate, dissonance becomes harmony, and nonsense wears a crown of meaning. But the clarifying leap springs from the rich soil of confusion, and the leaper is not unfamiliar with pain. — John Steinbeck

A woman wears many hats in one lifetime -- why shouldn't one of them be a crown? — Annie Jones

That Oscar can be a jinx ... It can ... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown. — Joan Fontaine

No one who wears a crown is ever safe. — George R R Martin

Innocence wears its own crown, Monsieur; it needs no added dignity; it is as sublime in rags as in royal robes. — Victor Hugo

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. — William Shakespeare

Bree doesn't know me as I am now, having missed almost five years of my life. But then, my life has changed more in the last two months than ever before. And only two people were with me through it. The first is imprisoned and the second wears a crown of blood. — Victoria Aveyard