Louis Xiv Quote by Douglas Adams

To walk into the hall of mirrors of Versailles as Louis XIV and deliver a monologue on your own in an empty hall of…

— George Blagden

“It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was…

— Maurice Minnifield

“Jean-Louis had never had a day's illness in his life. He was tall and as gnarled as an oak. The sun had baked his…

— Émile Zola

“...it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able…

— Orhan Pamuk

“What reason for vanity in being plunged into impenetrable darkness?”

— Blaise Pascal

“He thought other resourceful people would have come, over the years, to look at it, and that the house would wear its own mild…

— Alan Hollinghurst

“with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the…

— Gaston Leroux

“The soul is like a crystal in the sunshine over which a thick black cloth has been thrown so that however brightly the sun…

— Teresa of Ávila

“the room had grown smothery. He wanted to be out in some cool and bitter breeze, miles above the cities, and to live serene…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“Holy Bon Jovi, the queen of darkness actually had a soul.”

— Lynn Mitchell

“The sun, like a golden knife, was steadily paring away the edge of the shade beside the walls.The streets were enclosed between old, whitewashed…

— Sadegh Hedayat

“The sun now radiated all around me and the magnificent palace that lay before me glittered invitingly. Which reminded me of another one of…

— Jessie Harrell