Born Quote by Imelda Marcos

“Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for…

— Stefan Zweig

“Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for…

— Anonymous

Marie-Antoinette was born in 1755, the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Emperor Francis I. She was intelligent and artistic but…

— Amanda Foreman

“Whatever comes,” she said, “cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

We can't all play Marie Antoinette all of the time.

— Geraldine James

Compared to Imelda Marcos, Marie Antoinette was a bag lady.

— Stephen J. Solarz

As her life became more unhappy, acting attracted Marie-Antoinette because it fulfilled unmet emotional needs. By all accounts, she was quite good in her…

— Amanda Foreman

“She didn’t need to be received as nobility to be noble.”

— Courtney Milan

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman was one of those books I read in my mid-twenties that was life-changing. I think I…

— Elizabeth Peyton

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

— Gianni Versace

“Man is born free but is everywhere in chains,” wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contract in 1762. A generation of crusading lawyers put…

— Tom Reiss

I was actually very hesitant to write about Marie Antoinette. She seemed at first glance - well, I cannot think of any other term…

— Kathryn Lasky