Louis XIV Quotes:
Ocupation: Monarch
Life: September 5, 1638 - September 1, 1715
Birthday: September 5
Death: September 1
famous quotes
Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?
Topics: Imagine, Immortal, Last Words, Death Bed
It is legal because I wish it.
Topics: Government, Feet, Wish
Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?
Topics: Thinking, Immortal, Last Words, Famous Last Words, Dying Last Words
source: - "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 868-871), 1922.
Topics: Government, Order, Each Day
Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.
source: - Molière, quoting Louis XIV, "Siècle de Louis Quatorze" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 610-613), 1922.
Topics: Office, Political, Ingrates, Malcontent, Vacant
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
source: - "Absolutism in central Europe" by Peter H. Wilson, (p. 54), 2000.
Topics: Ungrateful, Unhappy, Hundred, Vacant
Topics: Kings, Law, Absolutism
Topics: Past, Men, Years, Ordinary Man
