Marie Antoinette Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake…

— M.B. Dallocchio

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Starving men should never pretend to enjoy a crust of bread.”

— Ryan Bigge

“It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

“Indeed, in most countries today overeating has become a far worse problem than famine. In the eighteenth century Marie Antoinette allegedly advised the starving…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Marie Antoinette

“I curse the day starvation became a commonly accepted diet for women.”

— Nicole Williams

“Really, how is eating a piece of cake bad? Being bad is murdering someone. That’s bad. Don’t do that”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

“She almost refused the food, but refusing something that might aid her in the end was simply foolish.”

— Erica Stevens

The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the…

— Amanda Foreman

“The cake is not for eating; it is to teach the cook.”

— Max S. Marshall