Wrens Quotes

• Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Time
  • Words
  • Mean

• The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Dare
  • Eagles

• Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sin
  • Doe
  • Sight