Marie Antoinette Quotes

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.

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

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?

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 wasn’t raised, I was built.

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

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

I am terrified of being bored.

Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.

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

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

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?

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

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

Let them eat cake.

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

Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette

I felt a tightening in my chest, a sharp spike of intense sadness-almost like nostalgia, except it was for a life I never had.

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

My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

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