Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys.
I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister.
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.
He stopped moving among the shelves. She stopped as well and scanned the books around her. 'Such a glorious perfume, these old books.
But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.
Chaol," he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian's eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. "Treat her well.
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.
A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh.
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it.
In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn’t the end.
If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.
I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.
Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes of an angel.
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the gr...
Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!" -after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
