Crowned

Famous quotes containing the word crowned:

“A centaur-herd,
Wild-horses, crowned with grass,
Swept among the feasting gods
With fir-shoots
Toward the wine-jars.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“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)

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