Renown is fame. The word may also refer to:
- HMS Renown, the name of multiple ships in the Royal Navy
- Models of bus manufactured by Associated Equipment Company
- AEC Renown (3-axle)
- AEC Renown - low-height double-decker bus built in 1960s
- Renown (German Barque)
- Renown (company), Japanese clothing brand
- Renown Coaches an operator of buses in East Sussex, England
- Renown Pictures, a British film company. Their most famous release is probably the 1951 Scrooge.
- Renown, a chain of hospitals in Reno, Nevada
Famous quotes containing the word renown:
“Had I but died an hour before this chance
I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant
There’s nothing serious in mortality.
All is but toys. Renown and grace is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant
There’s nothing serious in mortality.
All is but toys; renown and grace is dead,
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own—the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple—a few plain words—”My Heart Laid Bare.” But—this little book must be true to its title.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)