Sovereign

Famous quotes containing the word sovereign:

    “My maiden Isabel,
    Reflaring rosabel.
    The fragrant camomel;
    The ruddy rosary,
    The sovereign rosemary,
    The pretty strawberry;
    The columbine, the nept,
    The jelofer well set,
    The proper violet:”
    —John Skelton (1460?–1529)

    “Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,
    The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates
    Of snails, musician of pears, principium
    And lex. Sed quæritur: is this same wig
    Of things, this nincompated pedagogue,
    Preceptor to the sea?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.”
    —Georges Bataille (1897–1962)