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Versailles Quotes & Sayings

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Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style. — Rupert Everett

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

You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped. — Edgar Cayce

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant. — Richard Dawkins

couldn't tell a Versailles Merlot from two-buck Chuck, honestly. It all tasted the same to me. — Aubrey Dark

Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette — Kathryn Lasky

I felt a tightening in my chest, a sharp spike of intense sadness-almost like nostalgia, except it was for a life I never had. — Katie Alender

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. — John Maynard Keynes

Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon. — David Lloyd

Magnus believed that many old things were creations of enduring beauty. The pyramids. Michelangelo's David. Versailles. Magnus himself. — Cassandra Clare

Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again. — Adolf Hitler

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art. — John Fowles

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full. — Francis Parkman

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

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels. — Franz Grillparzer

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth. — Paul Johnson

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started. — Neve Campbell

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people. — Thomas Mars

When life is lost, all is lost. — Sunday Adelaja

will integrate you into the — Mercedes Lackey

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles. — Sally Mann

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

Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security. — Thomas Mars

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles. — Jean De La Bruyere

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other. — Patricia Briggs