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Famous quotes containing the words henry, viii, final and/or years:

    “Whenever we needed money, we robbed the airport. To us it was better than Citibank.”
    —Nicholas Pileggi, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Henry Hill (Ray Liotta)

    “I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.... I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden.”
    —Edward VIII (1894–1972)

    “So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship
    Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night
    Whose ruse gave it our final meaning.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”
    —Louis Aragon (1897–1982)