Quotes by Marie Antoinette

27 quotes found

Queen of France from 1774 to 1792

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Common Themes

“No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently.”

— 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

“We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but they, though very well in their way, were not what touched me most. What was really affecting was...”

— Marie Antoinette

“In a month’s time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is fixed for May 14th; they had prepared many fetes for this marriage, but now they are ec...”

— Marie Antoinette

“Pardon me, sir, I did not do it on purpose.”

— Marie Antoinette

“It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful v...”

— Marie Antoinette

“[Her] rumored tribadism had historically specific political implications. Consider her final (fictive) testimony in The Confession of Marie-Antoinette: 'People!' she protests, 'because I ceded to t...”

— Marie Antoinette