Blessed Virgin

Famous quotes containing the words blessed and/or virgin:

““Ye dayntye Nymphs, that in this blessed brooke
Doe bathe your brest,
Forsake you watry bowres,”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

“If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)