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
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
Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon. — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started. — Neve Campbell 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
In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Arguably, Versailles amounted to a prototype Disney World.” — Karen R. Jones & John Wills Copy Share Image
Raeder, the political admiral, stealthily built up the German Navy in defiance of the Versailles Treaty, and then put it to use… — Erich Raeder Copy Share Image
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
“It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if… — Maurice Minnifield 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 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
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
I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I'm always fighting either to have a house work with us or to head a house. It's a lifestyle I can totally… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology.… — Jeff Koons 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
“Did you know there are three palaces at Versailles? How many does one family need when thousands have no homes? I don’t… — Debra Borchert Copy Share Image
Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead,… — Maximilien Robespierre 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
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 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
