Famous quotes containing the words king henry, german, king and/or henry:
“Gloucester. I hope they will not come upon us now.
King Henry. We are in God’s hands, brother, not in theirs.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Ignorance is the mother of devotion.”
—Dean Henry Cole (1500–1580)