Louis King XIV

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

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

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.