Bread Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Marie Antoinette allegedly advised the starving masses that if they ran out of bread, they should just eat cake instead.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

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“One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge.”

— Joyce Rachelle

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

— Marie Antoinette

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— Kimberly Brock

“While dessert tastes good, woman cannot live on cake alone.”

— Melissa Ford

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