Marie Antoinette

Let them eat cake.

— Marie Antoinette

My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them. The king…

— Marie Antoinette

No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently.

— Marie Antoinette

When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to keep yours.

— Marie Antoinette

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but…

— Marie Antoinette

You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather…

— Marie Antoinette

Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and…

— Marie Antoinette

one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a…

— Marie Antoinette

You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety.

— Marie Antoinette

Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.

— Marie Antoinette

I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the…

— Marie Antoinette

The king and the dauphin both like to see me on horseback. I only say this because all the world perceives it,…

— Marie Antoinette

No, do not love me, it is better to give me death!

— Marie Antoinette

The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will…

— Marie Antoinette

In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.

— Marie Antoinette

I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother…

— Marie Antoinette

I should be very sorry if the Germans disapproved of me.

— Marie Antoinette

I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows…

— Marie Antoinette

The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the…

— Marie Antoinette

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

— Marie Antoinette

In a month's time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is…

— Marie Antoinette

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived…

— Marie Antoinette

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

— Marie Antoinette

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

— Marie Antoinette

My mother sees things but from the distance; she does not weigh them in regard to my position, and she judges me…

— Marie Antoinette