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Quotes About Henry

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
~ Henry Fielding
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
~ Henry Fielding
Reading musses up my mind.
~ Henry Ford
What is that common cause? There is one sufficient cause that is common to all nations; and that is the appropriation as the property of some of that natural element on which and from which all must live. Take
~ Henry George
Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.
~ Henry H. Tweedy
Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison.
~ Henry Handel Richardson
To be 'subderisorious' consists of 'scoffing or ridiculing with tenderness and delicacy'—at the expense of an amatorculist, for instance.
~ Henry Hitchings
A 'misdemeanour' is 'something less than an atrocious crime'. An 'uxorious' man is 'infected with connubial dotage'.
~ Henry Hitchings
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
~ Henry James
Don't underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.
~ Henry James
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published
~ Henry Jenkins
thousands of people. She debated her opponent on National Public Radio and found herself in the center
~ Henry Jenkins
million initiative in digital media and learning. They are published openly online (as well as in print) in
~ Henry Jenkins
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
~ Henry Kissinger
Durante los debates parlamentarios de noviembre de 1949, recalcó esto al gritar (algo muy poco habitual en él):
~ Henry Kissinger
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world
~ Henry Louis Mencken
The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong possibility that yours is a fake.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
I' am a transient electrochemical dance, made of myriad bits of information; and information, as the physicists tell us, is physical.
~ Henry Marsh
Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
~ Henry Miller
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything
~ Henry Miller
The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.
~ Henry Murger
The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
~ Henry Rollins
Not enough samurai in the world today. Just a bunch of assholes running wild with much too much freedom." Henry Rollins, from his book Solipsist.
~ Henry Rollins
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,By the shining Big-Sea-Water,Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow