King Henry IV

Famous quotes containing the words king henry, king and/or henry:

    Williams. I pray you, what thinks he of our estate?
    King Henry. Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be
    washed off the next tide.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Those banners come to bribe or threaten
    Or whisper that a man’s a fool
    Who when his own right king’s forgotten
    Cares what king sets up his rule.
    If he died long ago
    Why do you dread us so?
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Whatever practical people may say, this world is, after all, absolutely governed by ideas, and very often by the wildest and most hypothetical ideas. It is a matter of the very greatest importance that our theories of things that seem a long way apart from our daily lives, should be as far as possible true, and as far as possible removed from error.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)