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)

“Alas! when Virtue sits high aloft on a frigate’s poop, when Virtue is crowned in the cabin of a Commodore, when Virtue rules by compulsion, and domineers over Vice as a slave, then Virtue, though her mandates be outwardly observed, bears little interior sway.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)