Cardinal Richelieu Quotes
- If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?
- Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
- Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.
- I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.
- War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
- Deception is the knowledge of kings.
- Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
- Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
- Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
- Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is…
- I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
- Never write a letter and never destroy one.
- To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
- Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.
- Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.
- If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang…
- Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
- To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
- Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
- Happy is the man who dreams dreams, and is prepared topay the price to make them come true.