Quotes by Marie Antoinette

“I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.”

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

“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.”

“Let them eat cake.”

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

“I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took my children away from me. All I have left is my blood. Take it. but do not make me suffer long.”

“Let Them Book the Four Seasons,”

“Off to her bed.”

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

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

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 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 their misery, treated us so well, we are the more bound to work for their happiness.

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 in my veins, and it is only from prudence that at times I abstain from showing how proud I am of it.

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 ones 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.