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

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

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

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

First feelings are always the most natural.
Louis XIV

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

I am the state.
Louis XIV

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

It is legal because I wish it.
Louis XIV

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
Louis XIV

The Pyrenees are no more.
Louis XIV

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