Versailles Quotes
Collection of top 25 famous quotes about Versailles
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
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
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
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
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— 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