Quotes About Louis Xiv

#1. But Louis XIV had clever ministers, mainly men of humble origin chosen for their outstanding ability.

E.H. Gombrich

#2. The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

Richard M. Nixon

#4. The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

Billy Wilder

#5. No monarch placed more emphasis on the veneration of the king's body than...Louis XIV.

Jennifer Homans

#6. I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.

Julian Fellowes

#7. How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot

Sara Shepard

#8. The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior.

Van Day Truex

#9. First things first: Marie Antoinette never said, 'Let them eat cake.' Those words were attributed to an earlier French Queen, Marie-Therese, the wife of the Sun King Louis XIV. By 1767---a year in which Marie Antoinette was still an innocent German-speaking twelve-year-old in Austria....

Kris Waldherr

#10. Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.

Roy Andries De Groot

#11. It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I lived there.

Maurice Minnifield

#12. Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

Neve Campbell

#13. That gimcrack little desk, probably sham antique Louis XIV. She had said something to him once about there being a secret drawer in it. Secret drawer! That would not fool the police long.

Agatha Christie

#14. Louis XIV often appeared as a Roman emperor, adorned with other symbols...
The quality, number, value, and length of fabric, plumes, jewelry, and trains were all calibrated to status.

Jennifer Homans

#15. The African villager with a solar powered smartphone has more access to more information than Louis XIV in the halls of Versailles.

Walter Russell Mead

#16. The cornucopia that greets you as you enter the supermarket dwarfs anything that Louis XIV ever experienced (and it is probably less likely to contain salmonella).

Matt Ridley

#17. If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's mistresses. They were so fantastic and aristocratic, and they had so much power. And he was such a renaissance man. I think I would've fit into that nicely.

Katie McGrath

#18. Peter the Great imagined himself as a Russian Louis XIV

Jennifer Homans

#19. When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

Lytton Strachey

#20. Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.

Marie Antoinette

#21. [Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.

Horace Walpole

#22. Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty harmony, but there's a Louis XIV kind of elan and style, too. He had the melancholy DNA of our national folk heritage.

Charles Hazlewood

#23. Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.
[Fr., Le ciel me prive d'une epouse qui ne m'a jamais donne d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort.]

Louis XIV

#24. Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

Louis XIV

#25. It is legal because I wish it.

Louis XIV

#26. Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?

Louis XIV

#27. The Pyrenees are no more.

Louis XIV

#28. The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

Louis XIV

#29. Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes from the dazzling light of his presence.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#30. Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

Louis XIV

#31. Only small minds want always to be right.

Louis XIV

#32. First feelings are always the most natural.

Louis XIV

#33. Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

Louis XIV

#34. Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

#35. Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?

Louis XIV

#36. Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.

Louis XIV

#37. In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.

Louis XIV

#38. Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

#39. I am the State.
[Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]

Louis XIV

#40. Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

Jennifer Donnelly

#41. Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Louis XIV

#42. There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Louis XIV

#43. The final argument of kings

Louis XIV

#44. I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

Louis XIV

#45. Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

Louis XIV

#46. Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

Louis XIV Of France

#47. Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Jennifer Donnelly