Louis XIV Quotes & Sayings

Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ? — Louis XIV

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate. — Louis XIV

Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ? — Louis XIV

Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now time that I govern them myself. You [secretaries and ministers of state] will assist me with your counsels when I ask for them. I request and order you to seal no orders except by my command, ... I order you not to sign anything, not even a passport ... without my command; to render account to me personally each day and to favor no one. — Louis XIV

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women. — Louis XIV

The Pyrenees are no more. — Louis XIV

First feelings are always the most natural. — Louis XIV

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat — Louis XIV

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him. — Louis XIV

In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so. — Louis XIV

Only small minds want always to be right. — Louis XIV

Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate. — Louis XIV

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful. — Louis XIV

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. — Louis XIV

Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate. — Louis XIV

The final argument of kings — Louis XIV

It is legal because I wish it. — Louis XIV

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them. — Louis XIV

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. — Louis XIV

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.
[Fr., Le ciel me prive d'une epouse qui ne m'a jamais donne d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort.] — Louis XIV

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. — Louis XIV

I am the State.
[Fr., L'etat c'est moi.] — Louis XIV