“Arguably, Versailles amounted to a prototype Disney World.” — Karen R. Jones & John Wills Copy Share Image
In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full. — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security. — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon. — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
To walk into the hall of mirrors of Versailles as Louis XIV and deliver a monologue on your own in an empty… — George Blagden Copy Share Image
When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire history of the kings of… — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least… — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I'd always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they have in Paris where they keep… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure.… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
There was this one time in Vegas when I took four Victoria's Secret models and did one gram off each of their… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, Taylor. When I lost my folks, well, it’s not something I would want to go through… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of… — William Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived.… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I recall the little things in life that make the journey more joyful, like the cheerful guy playing the accordion in… — Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache Copy Share Image
Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“a middle-aged lady in a small country town, by doing no more than yield whole-hearted obedience to her own irresistible eccentricities, and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“The Nazis' entrance upon the European stage did not, at first, alarm the British. After all, under the Versailles treaty, the size… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Versailles has only existed for seven years. It does not have any ancient traditions. It was made by Colbert, the commoner. It… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is due to the profiteer; when wages… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty… — Hans Frank Copy Share Image
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… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
The king and the dauphin both like to see me on horseback. I only say this because all the world perceives it,… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
![“The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure. Owen's design for what he called a "parallelogram" was essentially to have a whole city in one building, laid out around a huge quadrangle. Fourier's scheme was to build a…” quote by Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/474/christine-jennings-20527_architecture_the-vision-shared-by-both-french-utopian_2339372.jpg)
