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)

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

    “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)