Crowned

Famous quotes containing the word crowned:

    “An illiterate king is a crowned ass.”
    —Medieval English proverb.

    Said by the chronicler William of Malmesbury to have been much used by King Henry I of England (1068-1135)

    “And all shall be well and
    All manner of thing shall be well
    When the tongues of flame are in-folded
    Into the crowned knot of fire
    And the fire and the rose are one.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)