The Crown Quotes (Season 3)

Happiness is a fickle creature. A constant companion to some, hides herself completely from others.

We can’t be everything to everyone and still be true to ourselves.[to Elizabeth]

No human being is ideal. Only God is ideal.

It’s so nice when a man is unaware of his best features.

We all tell ourselves all sorts of things to make sense of the past. So much so that our fabrications, if we tell them to ourselves often enough, become the truth. In our minds and everyone else’s.

We all desire equality, but here’s the thing. We were not born equal.

Truth may lie beneath the surface, buried, forgotten, but time has a way of uncovering it.

Tony and I will never let go of one another. And it’s not just because divorce is incompatible with my faith, but because this is just how we like it. War is our love. A brutal fight to the death is our mating dance, and I speak for both of us when I say we wouldn’t want it any other way. Contentment is dull, and Tony and I are anything but dull.

That’s the thing about the monarchy. We paper over the cracks. And if what we do is loud and grand and confident enough, no one will notice that all around us it’s fallen apart. That’s the point of us.[to Elizabeth]

People find it hard to trust a leader without a wife and family.

One doesn’t often get the opportunity to meet a former king. Former kings are usually dead.

Not having a voice is something all of us have to live with.[to Charles]