Quotes by Cardinal Richelieu

I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
– Cardinal Richelieu
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
– Cardinal Richelieu
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
– Cardinal Richelieu
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
– Cardinal Richelieu