“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

— William Shakespeare , Henry IV, Part 2

King Henry, Act III, scene i.
Source: Henry IV, Part 2 (1597–8)

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English playwright and poet 1564–1616

William Feather (1889–1981) Publisher, Author

The Business of Life (1949)

“Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.”

Huey Long (1893–1935) American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United States Senator

Written on banners used in the 1928 gubernatorial election; quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 39.

“Elegance lies not in the clothes we wear, but in the way we wear them.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance

“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 (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Variant: My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
Source: King Henry VI, Part 3

“From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.”

John Fletcher The Honest Man's Fortune

Act II, scene 2. Compare Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters, Act I, scene 3. Pliny, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter XVII. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, scene 2.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)

“From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.”

Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) English playwright and poet

A Mad World, my Masters (1605), Compare: "From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, 1 he is all mirth", William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act iii. Sc. 2.