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

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness..

I wasn’t raised, I was built..

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 po….

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….

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….

I am terrified of being bored..

Let them eat cake..

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

The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austria….

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

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 guil….

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother..

I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness fo….

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: t….

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

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

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten..

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 t….

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake..

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