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
Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“LOUIS XIV’s finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, believed that “the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm reading "The Sunset of a Splendid Century" by W.H. Lewis. He was C.S. Lewis's brother. He wrote two books about the… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set,… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The Louis XIII style in perfumery, composed of the elements dear to that period - orris-powder, musk, civet and myrtle-water, already known… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time,… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“The Sun King had dinner each night alone. He chose from forty dishes, served on gold and silver plate. It took a… — Matt Ridley 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
When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“A pair of young mothers now became the centre of interest. They had risen from their lying-in much sooner than the doctors… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others… — Francois Magendie 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
The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
“Louis XIV was a very proud and self-confident man. He had such and such mistresses, and such and such ministers, and he… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
A cravat is the only item of named after Croatians. Balkan mercenaries were brought to Paris by Louis XIV. Their strange and… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
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