Coronation Quotes

I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

I hereby proclaim myself King of Egypt to ensure the country’s dignity and its international status.

The coronation is a symbol of power, but it's not a symbol for us the people. It's a symbol for that person, who is a human, to become a higher being and become one with God. The church, the scepter, and the crown have been around forever. And the line of kings of England goes back thousands of years.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.

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

The strongest poison ever found Came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

… the imaginations of men are exceedingly prone to deify and worship them [kings]; though, to the great misfortune of mankind, they are more commonly fiends, than angels.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

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

I have no right to be a king, but I have the right to create a king.

I've become President of the Author's Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I'm crazy about it. It's got some bugs, but it's basically replaced my laptop. I'm very happy with it.

You may rely upon one thing — I'll never engage in creating kings again; it's too great a strain.

The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.

I don't believe in dynasties; I don't believe in coronations. That is not how it works in this country.

Kenya has deep resonances for the royals: it was here, after all, that the young Princess Elizabeth heard of the death of her father, George VI. From that moment, she was Queen.

the title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was. ... This idea of a crown began running in my head then like a tune, and has been running a lot in it ever since.

The New Labour political elite has long conspired to secure a so-called 'smooth transition' for Blair's successor. This would amount to little more than the imposition of a leader on the party and our supporters without any real democratic participation.

It is a characteristic of potentates that they don't succumb to peaceful retirement. Instead, they hold power in their hoary fists as judgment and grip weaken, destroying any successors except family members.

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

I think you can't have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit and caboodle.