Henry IV

Quotes by Henry IV

• I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

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• I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man.

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• One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.

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• I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.

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• Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of doing anything great.

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• Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.

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