Top 28 Quotes About James Ii: Famous Quotes & Sayings About James Ii

#1. James II's second wife, an Italian Catholic princess called Mary (at the time, there was an edict whereby all female royals were to be called Mary to confuse future readers of history books),

Stephen Clarke

#2. The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.

Philip Guedalla

#3. The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"-"Is it possible?"

Thomas B. Macaulay

#4. Simeon Potter notes that when James II first saw St. Paul's Cathedral he called it amusing, awful, and artificial, and meant that it was pleasing to look at, deserving of awe, and full of skillful artifice.

Bill Bryson

#5. Contemplation does not arrive at reality after a process of deduction, but by an intuitive awakening in which our free and personal reality becomes fully alive to its own existential depths, which open out into the mystery of God. For

Thomas Merton

#6. When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand a good supply of those pocket books, which were so common in that period. I must have read a couple hundred of them, and they did a lot to save my sanity.

James A. Michener

#7. An awful lot of people are living only a foot above high water and do not know it.

James T. Williams II

#8. You just got sprung."
"Nig Rosewater out there?" Clete asked.
"Nig Rosewater hasn't been up at this hour since World War II.

James Lee Burke

#9. I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

James Brown

#10. Until the end of World War II, Argentina and Australia were running in parallel.

Clive James

#11. My invite must have gotten lost in the mail," she said venomously. "But I don't mind crashing this party.
-Maximum Ride talking to Max II

James Patterson

#12. All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did banish thee:/ But thou the king.
Richard II

James Fenimore Cooper

#13. Iwo Jima had become the number-one front-page story in newspapers across the country. And it had become the most heavily covered, written-about battle in World War II.

James D. Bradley

#14. They certainly won't think she's been taken over by the devil. If anything, they're suspicious that the devil's taken a day off.

David Levithan

#15. Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

James Lovelock

#16. What are you doing here?" [ndr prison]
Selling Girl Scout cookies," I said. "Want some? The Samoas are terrific."
(Max II to Max)

James Patterson

#17. In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

C.L.R. James

#18. You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

Rhonda Byrne

#19. Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

James Earl Jones

#20. And there I was, pretty as heck, brown eyes, a few freckles, fashion challenged, and a bad attitude. Max II.

James Patterson

#21. Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him.

John Aubrey

#22. I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'

James Cromwell

#23. Despite the absence of Queen Elizabeth II's name in annual Forbes Rich Lists, everyone in the room was aware the Queen was one of the wealthiest people in the world, if not the wealthiest. However, hers and the House of Windsor's assets and income were mostly non-declared.

James Morcan