Quotes by Marie Antoinette

“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”

“I felt a tightening in my chest, a sharp spike of intense sadness-almost like nostalgia, except it was for a life I never had.”

“I falter in the doorway, swept with memories of my reckless behavior last time I saw him. I sipped wine from a bottle. I kissed him. And as my pulse flutters with excitement, I know I would do it a...”

“My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.”

“I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.”

“It is an amazing feature in the French character that they will let themselves be led away so easily by bad counsels and yet return again so quickly. It is certain that as these people have, out of...”

“Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? ”

“It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country; I have more reason than anyone to feel, every day of my life, the value of the blood which flows...”

“Let them eat cake.”

“Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far.”

“I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.”

“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.”

“I am terrified of being bored.”

“Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?”

“It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. The king seems to understand this tr...”

“We had a beautiful dream and that was all. The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I could achieve by being free of this place I cannot consent to separate my self f...”

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

“Madame d'Adhémar, here is another missive from my unknown. Have you not heard people talking again of the Comte de St.--Germain?... This time, the oracle has used the language which becomes him, th...”

“What do you make of these threatening verses?... Pray heaven you speak truly, Madame d’Adhémar, however, these are strange experiences. Who is this personage who has taken an interest in me for so ...”

“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.”