1.
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.
Marie Antoinette
'I was regal, and you removed my coronet; a spouse, and you snuffed out my beloved; a matriarch, and you withheld my little ones. My essence alone persists: take it, yet do not cause me extended anguish.'
2.
If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.
Marie Antoinette
If the people have no sustenance, let them consume pastry.
3.
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.
Marie Antoinette
4.
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
Marie Antoinette
'All that is old will be remembered again.'
5.
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
Marie Antoinette
"Valiance! I have exhibited it for an eternity; do you believe I shall discard it at the time when my afflictions are to cease?"
6.
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
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette. Her final utterance was,"Excuse me sir. I did not intend to do it,"to a man whose foot she inadvertently trod on before she was beheaded by the guillotine.
7.
I wasn’t raised, I was built.
Marie Antoinette
I was not nurtured, I was constructed.
8.
We had a beautiful dream and that was all. The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I could achieve by being free of this place I cannot consent to separate my self from him. I could not have any pleasure in the world if I abandoned my children. I do not even have any regrets.
Marie Antoinette
9.
Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.
Marie Antoinette
10.
And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.
Marie Antoinette
11.
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.
Marie Antoinette
12.
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.
Marie Antoinette
13.
I am terrified of being bored.
Marie Antoinette
14.
Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.
Marie Antoinette
15.
Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.
Marie Antoinette
16.
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!
Marie Antoinette
17.
No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.
Marie Antoinette
18.
No, do not love me, it is better to give me death!
Marie Antoinette
19.
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?
Marie Antoinette
20.
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.
Marie Antoinette
21.
Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.
Marie Antoinette
22.
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.
Marie Antoinette
23.
Let them eat cake.
Marie Antoinette
24.
I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.
Marie Antoinette