Louis XIV Quotes. James Wood, comp. 1899. Dictionary of Quotations

James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Louis XIV


Il n’y a plus de Pyrénées—There are no longer any Pyrenees. On the departure of the Duke of Anjou from Paris for Spain.	1
J’ai failli attendre—I was all but kept waiting. As his carriage drove up just at the last moment.	2
La nation ne fait pas corps en France; elle réside toute entière dans la personne du roy—In France the nation is not a corporate body; it resides entirely in the person of the king.	3
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.	4
Le ciel me prive d’une épouse qui ni m’a jamais donné d’autre chagrin que celui de sa mort—Heaven bereaves me of a spouse who never caused me any other vexation than by her death. Of his wife.	5
“L’état, c’est moi”—“The state, I am the state.”	6
Quelque parti que je prenne je sais bien que je serai blâmé—Whatever side I take, I know well that I shall be blamed.	7
Toutes les fois que je donne une place vacante, je fais cent mécontents, et un ingrat—Every time I appoint to a vacant post, I make a hundred discontented and one ungrateful.	8