Famous quotes containing the words king and/or henri:
“The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)