Marie Antoinette Quotations

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took my children away from me. All I have left is my blood. Take it. but do not make me suffer long.

I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.

Let them eat cake.

The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians and that within three weeks we will be negotiating (God forbid that this should happen). May we at last be avenged for all the outrages we have suffered from this country!

Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness for all whom I know for every harm I may have unwittingly caused them...Adieu, good, gentle sister...I embrace you with all my heart as well as the poor, dear children.

No, do not love me, it is better to give me death!

I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.

In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.

one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.

I am terrified of being bored.

Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.

Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them.

I wasn’t raised, I was built.

We had a beautiful dream and that was all...

When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to keep yours.

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.