Famous quotes containing the words king and/or henri:
“Cities are ... distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)