Marie Antoinette Quotes

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

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.

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

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.

Let them eat cake.

I am terrified of being bored.

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

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.