WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:32:02 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Louis XIV – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Louis XIV -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/louis-xiv/36415/ https://wist.info/louis-xiv/36415/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:13:03 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36415 If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him.


Louis XIV (1638-1715) French monarch (1643-1715) [Louis the Great, the Sun King)
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Quoted in William Seward, Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Vol 4, 5th ed. (1804). ]]> https://wist.info/louis-xiv/36415/feed/ 1 36415 Louis XIV -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/louis-xiv/41879/ https://wist.info/louis-xiv/41879/#respond Wed, 27 May 2020 18:34:45 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=41879 Every time I fill a vacant office I make a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.


Louis XIV (1638-1715) French monarch (1643-1715) [Louis the Great, the Sun King)
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Quoted in Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV, ch. 26 (1751). ]]> https://wist.info/louis-xiv/41879/feed/ 0 41879