I wasn’t raised, I was built.

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

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.

Lovers alone wear sunlight.

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

Falling on your face, at the very least, is a forward movement.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.

Women tend to collaborate, in my experience, more easily than gentlemen do.