Blessed Virgin Mary

Famous quotes containing the words blessed, virgin and/or mary:

    ““Of fayre Elisa be your silver song,
    That blessed wight:
    The flowre of virgins, may shee florish long
    In princely plight.”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “I want that head so sanitary and squared away that the Virgin Mary herself would be proud to go in there and take a dump.”
    —Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)