Famous quotes containing the words louis and/or xiv:
“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894)
“The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)