15 Versailles Quotes for You to Enjoy

It is hard to imagine Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte, and later the magnificent Chateau de Versailles, with no high hill to stand on, no helicopter to fly in, and no drone to show him the complexities of the terrain. Yet he did, and with extreme precision, accuracy, and high style. Martha Stewart

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When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely the continuation of the first, 'an armistice of 20 years,' as Marshal Foch had accurately predicted at the Versailles Peace Conference, with some changes of side. Michael Korda

War Peace World First Changes Side Marshal Some Invariably Mentioned Had Merely Continuation Years Versailles Conference Accurately After Predicted Elders Meant Peace Conference Even Second World War Second World War

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people. Thomas Mars

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Essentially, Louis XIV created exclusivity. If we look at how we live our lives today, many of us are members of clubs or gyms. We search out exclusivity. He created the world of fashion at Versailles. George Blagden

I got makeup tests and hair tests for 'Versailles,' and the main thing they were obsessed with was that my hands were disgusting. I had three years of Irish dirt under my nails. I had to have manicures and everything. George Blagden

Three Hair Everything Dirt Main Had Main Thing Obsessed Nails Makeup Got Were Years Versailles Tests Irish Hands Disgusting Thing

Yes, I love going to fittings and talking about the history of a costume. For 'Versailles,' a play set in 1919, the costume designer told me that pocket squares had just been introduced. The tango was becoming fashionable in London, and dancers used them to mop their brows. I love to learn fascinating stuff like that. Gwilym Lee

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When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that of Versailles, with clipped hedges, berceaus, and trellis work. Horace Walpole

Work Garden Approaching Doubt Something He Eden Frenchman Reads Versailles

Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. Kathryn Lasky

You Hate Live Too Else Complete Tell Visiting Would Cotton Never Like Years Versailles Did Diet Just Anybody Candy Anybody Else Want Whipped Cream Even Found Million Million Years Marie Marie Antoinette

After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but we didn't, and let a lot of the tab slide. So not all lending and borrowing is bad. Louis Navellier

Loan Become Slide Bad Tab Borrowing Economic Could Shark Global Versailles Lot After Lending Chosen Treaty

Many in the English-speaking world came to agree with the Germans that the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparations in particular, were unjust, and that Lloyd George had capitulated to the vengeful French. Margaret MacMillan

World Unjust Had Particular Vengeful French Reparations Came George Were Versailles Germans Many Agree English-Speaking Treaty

I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles. Rachael Ray

Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security. Thomas Mars

People Living Security Almost Like Versailles Up Growing Growing Up Museum

One of the many pleasures of 'Versailles' is the way in which it seems to emanate not only from the vexed inner being of Marie Antoinette but from the interstices between what we imagine of her and what she was. Stacey D'Erasmo

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