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Quotes About Henry

this your damned dog?' Henry glared at Barney accusingly.
~ Tilly Bagshawe
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
~ Henry Fielding
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
~ Henry James
To his amazement, he could already hear Henry snoring in the backseat. That guy could fall asleep on a car trip to the mailbox.
~ Heather Brewer
Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius." pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss
~ Heather Brewer
Henry] felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he had been directed to gain, no unworthy retraction of a tacit consent, no reversing feared of unjustifiable anger, could shake his fidelity, or influence the resolutions it prompted.
~ Jane Austen
Her passion for ancient edifices was next in degree to her passion for Henry Tilney-- and castles and abbeys made usually the charm of those reveries which his image did not fill.
~ Jane Austen
But indeed I did not wish you a pleasant walk; I never thought of such a thing; but I begged Mr. Thorpe so earnestly to stop; I called out to him as soon as ever I saw you; now, Mrs. Allen, did not—Oh! You were not there; but indeed I did; and, if Mr. Thorpe would only have stopped, I would have jumped out and run after you. Is there a Henry in the world who could be insensible to such a declaration? Henry Tilney at least was not.
~ Jane Austen
Is there a Henry in the world who could be insensible to such a declaration? Henry Tilney at least was not.
~ Jane Austen
and, if Mr. Thorpe would only have stopped, I would have jumped out and run after you. Is there a Henry in the world who could be insensible to such a declaration?
~ Jane Austen
I would have jumped out and run after you.' Is there a Henry in the world who could be insensible to such a declaration? Henry Tilney at least was not. With a yet sweeter smile, he said every thing that need be said...
~ Jane Austen
She was assured of his affection; and that heart in return was solicited, which, perhaps, they pretty equally knew was already entirely his own; for, though Henry was now sincerely attached to her, though he felt and delighted in all the excellencies of her character and truly loved her society
~ Jane Austen
I'm not sure whether a person can really gauge the quality of his work by the enemies he's made, but if I somehow upset Hamas and the Taliban and Henry Waxman, I must have done something right.
~ Erik Prince
I clanked open a bonnet flap and was met by an almost visible wave of heat. The Model T motor's prodigious talent for thermal radiation would always amaze me. It was as if Henry had made a terrible miscalculation and perfected the external combustion engine.
~ Tim Moore
It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.
~ Oscar Wilde
Science! He [Dr. MacBride] doesn't know what Christianity is yet. I've entertained many guests, but none - The whole secret, broke off Judge Henry, Lies in the way you treat people. As soon as you treat men as your brothers, they are ready to acknowledge you - if you deserve it - as their superior. That's the whole bottom of Christianity, and that's what our missionary will never know.
~ Owen Wister
Henry lived in a boarding-house in Guildford Street.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~ Henry James
King Henry—have exchanged her son's inheritance for
~ Helen Castor
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
~ Henry Adams
Of all the days that's in the week I dearly love but one day And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday.
~ Henry Carey
The reason the story runs so much with the little girls are the actual heroes in the warfare is because under most circumstances women are braver than men ..
~ Henry Darger
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
~ Henry David Thoreau
O Amor é a regra que resume todas as outras regras. O Amor é o mandamento que justifica todos os outros mandamentos.
~ Henry Drummond