Famous quotes containing the words king henry, german, king and/or henry:
“An illiterate king is a crowned ass.”
—Medieval English proverb.
Said by the chronicler William of Malmesbury to have been much used by King Henry I of England (1068-1135)
“Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets ... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the greater part of the Reich. Over all this territory, which with the Soviet Union included, would be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.”
—Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945)
“I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“God lives! He forged the iron will
That clutched and held that trembling hill!”
—Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918)