68 Coronation Quotes

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Famous Coronation Quotes

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

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. — William Shakespeare

My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy. — William Shakespeare

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. - Frederick the Great

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. — Frederick the Great

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. — Walter Bagehot

I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World. — Charles I of England

Royalty is a fine burial shroud. — Theodora

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay — John Osborne

One who wants to wear the crown, bears the crown. — Lee Min-ho

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show. — Terry Pratchett

Humility is royalty without a crown. — Spencer W. Kimball

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods. — King James I

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

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes. — Alexander Pope

Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Short Coronation Quotes

  • I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives. — Michael Parkinson
  • Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders. — Rio Ferdinand
  • They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. — William Congreve
  • Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • At least some of us need to be very careful in running to coronating Secretary Clinton. — Eddie Glaude
  • Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man. — Ellen Terry
  • I don't see any coronation coming my way — Lindsey Graham
  • Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years. — Leonard Cohen

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More Coronation Quotes

The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post-tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves. — Robert Greene

The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What's the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you'd get a pulse. — Dennis Miller

We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell. — Arthur Murray

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven. — Bill Vaughan

I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out. — Joseph Brodsky

Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week. — Calvin Miller

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb. — Ambrose Bierce

I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Mrs. Teasdale congratulates him on his coronation and sovereignty: "The eyes of the world are upon you. Notables from every country are gathered here in your honor. This is a gala day for you." Firefly replies: "Well, a gal a day is enough for me. I don't think I could handle any more." — Groucho Marx

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest. — H. L. Mencken

I'm not a showbiz person. I just enjoy talking nonsense on the radio. I'm not bothered about going to clubs or the paparazzi, I genuinely prefer my neighbours. Spending time with my family and watching Coronation Street are what I love best. People are just people, aren't they? — Tony Blackburn

Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain. — Rosie Batty

Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality. — Frederick William Robertson

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. — Jorge Luis Borges

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'What I'm going to be if I grow up'. — Lenny Bruce

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude. — Richard Fleeshman

It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people. — Richard Fleeshman

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen — Richelle Mead

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up. — Lenny Bruce

The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed. "They cannot conquer for ever!" said Frodo. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen. — Elizabeth II

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life. — Alex Campbell

[Kellyanne Conway]taking [Jennifer] Palmieri to school. You had a lousy candidate, you've got a candidate who's arrogant and aloof and didn't even campaign in states she thought she was gonna be coronated in. She thinks she's better than everybody else. — Rush Limbaugh

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived). — David Edelstein

I worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands and the pay was dreadful. On my third day I was like, 'Can I leave early? I've got an audition for Coronation Street.' They said yes and I never went back. — Suzanne Shaw

I saw so many kids 22, 19, with holes the size of a dime and they're dead. It's a gunshot and of course those kids thought they were as tough as nails, they never expected to be dead but they're gone. It's kinda nice to walk out of the County Coroner's Office with a couple of sayings, you know? "You're not so tough being dead on a morgue table." — Milo Ventimiglia

The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun. — Candace Kita

There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felony. That appears to me to go rather in support of the general rule than in destruction of it. Every exception that can be accounted for is so much a confirmation of the rule that it has become a maxim, Exceptio probat regulam. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching 'Coronation Street.' — Amelia Warner

I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots. — Jack Wild

You better wake up before it's too late, or they'll be doing your makeup down at the coroner's place. — Kool Moe Dee

I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation. — Maureen Lipman

Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time. Deryn Collier is a talent to watch. — Giles Blunt

It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds. — Terry Pratchett

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