Marie Antoinette Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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#4. I wasn't raised, I was built.

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

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#6. Let them eat cake.

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#7. 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 much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.

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#8. Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

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#9. I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them.

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#10. Adieu, dear heart, nothing but death can make me cease to love you.

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#11. One's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?

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#12. But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here?

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#13. Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

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#14. I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.

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#15. Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.

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#16. It is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.

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

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#18. There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

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#19. We had a beautiful dream and that was all ...

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#20. And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

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#21. I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

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