Quotes About Louis Xiii

#1. And who had the honor to be, as a child, the play-fellow of our king, Louis XIII, whom God preserve! Sometimes their play degenerated into battles, and in these

Alexandre Dumas

#2. Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.

Allen Lacy

#3. Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement of the Reign

Alexandre Dumas

#4. Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. 1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies.

Jean Ziegler

#6. How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Lytton Strachey

#7. Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

Goran Persson

#8. There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

Madame De Stael

#9. I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

Ben Kingsley

#10. Suddenly I'm as if cast out,
and this solitude surrounds me
as something vast and unbounded,
when my feeling, standing on the hills
of my breasts, cries out for wings
or for an end.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#11. While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.

Harriet Martineau

#12. Kids in different countries know my movies by heart because they've seen them so many times. And wonderful returns never stop.

Michel Ocelot