I have begun the ‘History of England’ by Mr. Hume. It seems to me very interesting, though it is necessary to recollect that it is a Protestant who has written it. — Marie Antoinette

Dreams weigh nothing.’ – Kathryn Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria — France

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

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? — Marie Antoinette

But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here? — Marie Antoinette

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 — Marie Antoinette

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 of lower–class reality back into their mouths? — M.B. Dallocchio

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one’s family. — Marie Antoinette

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness. — Marie Antoinette

The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief. — Marie Antoinette

Adieu, dear heart, nothing but death can make me cease to love you. — Marie Antoinette

It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if I did not. — Marie Antoinette

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies. — Marie Antoinette

It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I’d been there before. I don’t know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I lived there. — Marie Antoinette

Let my son never forget the last words of his father, which i repeat emphatically; Let him never seek to avenge our deaths. — Marie Antoinette

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

Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with–often with cruel and deceitful intentions–in an unreal world. — Marie Antoinette

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. — Marie Antoinette

My tastes are not those of the king who has none, except for hunting and mechanic’s labour. — Marie Antoinette

Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father. — Marie Antoinette

I have never treasured any woman the way I treasure you now, this moment. You are all I think of, all I want. — Carolly Erickson

No one understands my ills, Nor the terror that fills my breast, who does Not kNow the heart of a mother. — Marie Antoinette

I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau. — Marie Antoinette

If you weaken the monarchy, you undermine the entire nation. — Marie Antoinette

I wasn’t raised, I was built. — 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

It lies in humanity’s infinite capacity for self–deception where some perceived (and in this case long–desired) advantage is at stake. — Antonia Fraser

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. — Marie Antoinette