Top 7 Versailles Quotes

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

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

Neve Campbell

Ballet, Versailles

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

Jean de la Bruyere

Versailles, Manners, Caught

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

Sally Mann

Airplane, Garden, Versailles

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

Francis Parkman

Versailles, Earning, France

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

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

War, World, Versailles

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

I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology. So in Versailles, in this type of setting, you have a place that is about absolute control, where everything has been thought about.

Jeff Koons

Philosophy, Versailles, Kind

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com