Famous quotes containing the words henry, iii, france, polish and/or reign:
“Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one’s own way at all hazards.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)
“It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“You will have to polish up the stars
with Bab-o and find a new God
as the earth empties out
into the gnarled hands of the old redeemer.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I am monarch of all I survey;
My right there is none to dispute;
From the center all round to the sea
I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
O Solitude! where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms,
Than reign in this horrible place.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)