Top 37 Sir Henry Quotes

#1. An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Norman Davies

Sir Henry Quotes #159710
#2. Sir Henry fixed him with a keen eye.
'Odd name, Tom Skatt - eh?'
'Thats right'
'You don't think we could be related?'
Tom looked up at his great-great-great-uncle and smiled.
'I don't think so'
'No,' grinned Sir Henry no, of course not

Henry Chancellor

Sir Henry Quotes #157175
#3. As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."

Robert Baden-Powell

Sir Henry Quotes #1709657
#4. But the curator said nothing mattered so long as it looked all right to the ignorant." [Lady Brace]
"Sort of government motto. I see." [Sir Henry Merrivale]

Carter Dickson

Sir Henry Quotes #1531407
#5. If you will excuse us?'

'Go to Sir Henry's room,' Lady Mary called after her. 'And if you use weapons, be sure to call witnesses.

Dorothy Dunnett

Sir Henry Quotes #1466116
#6. Ye Gods and Little Fishes," said Sir Henry, "can it be? George, it's my own particular, one and only four starred Pussy. The super Pussy of all old Pussies...

Agatha Christie

Sir Henry Quotes #1273484
#7. Now, I whispered. Boom! boom! boom! went the three heavy rifles, and down came Sir Henry's elephant dead as a hammer, shot right through the heart.

H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Quotes #968670
#8. It's an honor to win the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award.

Peter Uihlein

Sir Henry Quotes #876602
#9. Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to ... yes, a ball."
"Well, that's a lot of ... "
"Don't you dare, Sam.

Terry Pratchett

Sir Henry Quotes #782430
#10. If I had all the money I spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink (Sir Henry at Rawlinson End)

Vivian Stanshall

Sir Henry Quotes #608830
#11. Atoms are round balls of wood invented by Dr. Dalton.
(Answer given by a pupil to a question on atomic theory, as reported by Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe.)

Henry Enfield Roscoe

Sir Henry Quotes #399421
#12. Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you?
Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.

Julian Fellowes

Sir Henry Quotes #1094876
#13. The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
- Sir William Henry Bragg

William Henry Bragg

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#14. What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.

Henry MacKenzie

Sir Henry Quotes #1145668
#15. No economy ever stands still.

Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

Sir Henry Quotes #1236852
#16. When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.

Patrick Henry

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#17. His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally suited to the indefinite and suggestive presentation of a ghost story.
(introduction to "Sir Edmund Orme" by Henry James)

Herbert A. Wise

Sir Henry Quotes #1286256
#18. I am a member of this body. Therefore, sir, I shall neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg ... I am here to demand my rights, and to hurl thunderbolts at the men who would dare to cross the threshold of my manhood.

Henry McNeal Turner

Sir Henry Quotes #1292197
#19. Some soldier will say, 'You know, sir, you and I have some political disagreements, but I'm glad you came all the way out here.' And you know, you say, 'Well, maybe one day you'll see the light but I'm glad to be out here with you.'

Henry Rollins

Sir Henry Quotes #1404362
#20. The most basic law of economics?that one cannot get something for nothing.

Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

Sir Henry Quotes #1449450
#21. Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

William Henry Harrison

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#22. This place is a regular whispering-gallery.

Arnold Bennett

Sir Henry Quotes #1586855
#23. The institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of the more laborious forms of statistical and field work.

Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

Sir Henry Quotes #1635620
#24. Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.

Patrick Henry

Sir Henry Quotes #1691152
#25. My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.

Henry Laurens

Sir Henry Quotes #1079155
#26. I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old ...

Henry Clay

Sir Henry Quotes #944849
#27. Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth.

James Henry Hammond

Sir Henry Quotes #867899
#28. From CATS ARE KIND
A man said to the universe,
'Sir, I exist!'
'Excellent,' replied the universe,
'I've been looking for someone to take care of my cats.

Henry N. Beard

Sir Henry Quotes #773670
#29. Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

Henry Thomas Buckle

Sir Henry Quotes #764784
#30. Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.

Henry Martyn

Sir Henry Quotes #734737
#31. Though I couldn't make out what she was talking of I was terribly frightened; the absence of a clue gave such a range to one's imagination.
("Sir Edmund Orme")

Henry James

Sir Henry Quotes #677207
#32. The Brighton air used of old to make plain girls pretty and pretty girls prettier still - I don't know whether it works the spell now.
("Sir Edmund Orme")

Henry James

Sir Henry Quotes #388625
#33. Mr. Clinton," he had said, when Henry ventured to inquire about a particularly ambiguous examination, "you may write until doomsday for all I care, but if your answers do not coincide with my answers they are wrong. Wrong, sir.

Harper Lee

Sir Henry Quotes #206712
#34. Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

Henry Clay

Sir Henry Quotes #184494
#35. How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.

Henry V. O'Neil

Sir Henry Quotes #116718
#36. Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

Henry Fielding

Sir Henry Quotes #68336
#37. But the blots, Turkey," intimated I. "True,-but, with submission, sir, behold these hairs! I am getting old. Surely, sir, a blot or two of a warm afternoon is not to be severely urged against gray hairs. Old age-even if it blot the page-is honorable. With submission, sir, we both are getting old.

Henry James

Sir Henry Quotes #20189

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