Henry Quotes

405 Henry quotes by 268 unique authors

Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s.… — Gore Vidal
Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and… — Robert Hormats
No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid Cassandra Morgan during… — Robert Fogel
Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art. — Bess Myerson
Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent. — Paul Theroux
In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank,… — P.J. O'Rourke
I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that… — Helen Vendler
Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O.… — Gary Krist
In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey… — Jane Leavy
My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room… — Hamish Bowles
Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972… — Elliott Abrams
Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve… — Tim Walberg
I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul… — Cynthia Ozick
When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been… — Cynthia Ozick
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize. — Tom Lehrer
Henry Kissinger never wanted the 20,000 pages of his telephone transcripts made public - not while he was alive, at any rate. — Robert Dallek
William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide his… — Robert Dallek
I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry… — Robert Hass
At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This… — Caroline Lawrence
In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in… — Karen Maitland
What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me… — Pico Iyer
I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet. — Finn Wittrock
Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy. — Kevin Spacey
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure… — Joanna Scott
She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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