quotes about Versailles

last updated: November 28, 2023

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.
-- Francis Parkman

Source : Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe”, p.853, Library of America

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Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
-- Neve Campbell

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The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.
-- Paul Johnson

Source : Paul Johnson (1972). “The offshore islanders; England's people from Roman occupation to the present”

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Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.
-- David Lloyd

Source : Comment about Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clemenceau in 1919. "International Relations" article in The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1993.

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“I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.”

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“Sometimes you have to do whatâ€™s wrong in order to do whatâ€™s right.”
“But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential advance-team member - yet that information was never thoroughly investigated or publicly acknowledged.”

Source : "Politics Aides knew of possible White House link to Cartagena, Colombia, prostitution scandal". www.washingtonpost.com. October 8, 2014.
“I love Fidel Castro, I respect Fidel Castro, you know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherf****r is still here.”
“When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.”
“God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.”

Source : FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Jul 18, 2011
“Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw? Qaddafi was the thug who came in from the cold, the one who (in the wake of Saddam's fall) renounced his nuclear program and was supposedly rehabilitated in the chancelleries of the West. He was a strong partner in the war on terrorism, according to U.S. diplomats. And what did Washington do? They overthrew him anyway.”
“I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.”
“It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.”

Source : Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.9, Macmillan
“It's very exciting to work with people who inspire you.”