Crown Princess Victoria

Famous quotes containing the words crown, princess and/or victoria:

    “Give me simplicity, that I may live,
    So live and like, that I may know Thy ways,
    Know them and practise them: then shall I give
    For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “At the next town
    the local princess was having a contest.
    A common way for princesses to marry.
    Fifty men had perished,
    gargling the sea like soup.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The men who are grandfathers should be the fathers. Grandpas get to do it right with their grandchildren.”
    —Anonymous Grandparent. As quoted in Women and Their Fathers, by Victoria Secunda, ch. 2 (1992)