Marie Antoinette famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Creativity #Creative #Historical
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
-- Marie Antoinette

#Courage #Thinking #Years
If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Cake #People #Bread
No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Mother #Heart #Doe
But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here?
-- Marie Antoinette

#Hands #Cake
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

#Mother #Queens #Children
Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Firsts #Realizing #Trouble
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

#Change #Order #Desire
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

#Family #Share #Intimate
And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Love #Flower #Rose
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

#Brother #Children #Heart
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Revolution #French Revolution #Painful
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

#Pregnancy #Complaining #Birth
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

#Cake #Wife #People
Let them eat cake.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Cake
Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Children #Father #Farewell
Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Would Be #Unhappiness
When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to keep yours.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Important #Losing
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

#Mean #Men #Feet
In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Politics #Importance #Crisis
Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Trouble #Moments #Failing
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

#Ideas #Forever #Suffering
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

#Country #Kings #War
I am terrified of being bored.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Bored
I wasnâ€™t raised, I was built.
-- Marie Antoinette

#Raised
No, do not love me, it is better to give me death!
-- Marie Antoinette

#Giving

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