Famous quotes containing the words grand, duke and/or henri:
“One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
“The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.”
—Edward, Duke of Windsor (1894–1972)
“A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth!”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)