Mazarin Quotes

#1. Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist.

Alexandre Dumas

#2. Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

Lord Chesterfield

#3. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MAZARIN STONE

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. The reign of Mazarin is over, but that of the financiers is begun. They have the money; your majesty will not often see much of it. To live under the paw of these hungry wolves is hard for a man who reckoned upon independence.

Alexandre Dumas

#5. Mazarin shed tears over this great loss, which Conde, who had no feeling for anything but glory, disregarded. "A single night in Paris," said he, "gives birth to more men than this action has destroyed.

Friedrich Schiller

#6. You can wait your whole life for the right moment and it might never come, so I'm a big believer in making now the right moment.

Logan Henderson

#7. In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.

Cardinal Mazarin

#8. Libertarianism is "cultish," say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass murders, its little children saluting and paying homage to pictures of their dear leaders on the wall, etc.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#9. Great rogues hang the little ones.

Cardinal Mazarin

#10. Symbols are important. The Christians followed the pagans there, carving and painting their one God as the old ones carved and painted the many. Neither understand that the one is part of the many, the many part of the one.

Nora Roberts

#11. The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like.

Cardinal Mazarin

#12. He knew what I was thinking," the boy said to himself. The old man, meanwhile, was leafing through the book, without seeming to

Paulo Coelho

#13. Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go?

Cardinal Mazarin

#14. The kingdom of reflection is at the mercy of the wind!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. But she died; and with my own hands I bore her to the tomb; and I laughed with a long and bitter laugh as I found no traces of the first in the channel where I laid the second.

Edgar Allan Poe