Famous quotes containing the words henry, iii, france, polish and/or reign:
“It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)
“The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
“Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of flowers, reflected in the water. But we missed the white water-lily, which is the queen of river flowers, its reign being over for this season.... Many of this species inhabit our Concord water.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)