Famous quotes containing the words henry, iii, france, polish and/or reign:
“Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.”
—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)
“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
“The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)