German King Henry

Famous quotes containing the words king henry, german and/or king:

    Williams. I pray you, what thinks he of our estate?
    King Henry. Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be
    washed off the next tide.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
    Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    ... and the next summer she died in childbirth.
    That’s all. Of course, there may be some sort of sequel but it is not known to me. In such cases instead of getting bogged down in guesswork, I repeat the words of the merry king in my favorite fairy tale: Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)