Angevin Empire/pinnacle of The Angevin Empire 1160-1199

Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or pinnacle:

    “London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    “Fives, and tens,
    Threes and fours and twelves,
    All the volte face of decimals,
    The whirligig of dozens and the pinnacle of seven.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)