Louis XIV

Famous quotes containing the words louis and/or xiv:

    “Whenever the moon and stars are set,
    Whenever the wind is high,
    All night long in the dark and wet,
    A man goes riding by.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    “Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.”
    —Louis XIV (1638–1715)