The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like.

- Cardinal Mazarin

In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.

- Cardinal Mazarin

Great rogues hang the little ones.

- Cardinal Mazarin

Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go?

- Cardinal Mazarin