As her life became more unhappy, acting attracted Marie-Antoinette because it fulfilled unmet emotional needs. By all accounts, she was quite good… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
I am a museum curator when I am not on the television and in our collection at Kensington Palace we have a… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I played Simone, the French tutor for the daughter of a rich Manhattan couple, who goes to a costume ball as Marie… — Louise Linton Copy Share Image
Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“The places that once knew [Marie Antoinette] now know her forever.” — Grace Greenwood Copy Share Image
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I have the high honor of being the only person who has been compared to Marie Antoinette, Darth Vader, and Cruella de… — Louise Linton Copy Share Image
Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
“It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if… — Maurice Minnifield Copy Share Image
“Property has ever been a fluid concept--just ask the wife of the Wall Street speculator who writes her party invitations on Marie… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“Dariya and I used to play French Revolution when we were little. We'd take turns being Marie Antoinette. Our grandmamma caught us… — Robin Bridges Copy Share Image
A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
I feel like few things are more successful at portraying honest emotions/experiences. There also just seems to be a certain feeling/mood that… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it’s the same moon Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
“It was her, Marie Antoinette, scrutinizing me, satanically silent. Some would say that Marie Antoinette could only express her hate in silence… — Albert Sánchez Piñol Copy Share Image
With a good education and a solid childhood, Marie-Antoinette might have become one of the most admired women in Europe. As it… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Marie-Antoinette was born in 1755, the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Emperor Francis I. She was intelligent and… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
“This woman is Pocahontas. She is Athena and Hera. Lying in this messy, unmade bed, eyes closed, this is Juliet Capulet. Blanche… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Here is everything I know about France: Madeline and Amelie and Moulin Rouge. The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, although… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“Edith stared at the ceiling, contemplating the oddness of life. Here she was with this man, whom she hardly knew when she… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“Sir, sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In the Blue Room, Cora Cash was trying to concentrate on her book. Cora found most novels hard to sympathise with --… — Daisy Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Neither Louis nor Marie Antoinette was at ease with the truly important people of their day. When Voltaire, after an exile of… — Bernardine Kielty Copy Share Image