54 Quotes by Marie Antoinette

I wasn’t raised, I was built.

We had a beautiful dream and that was all...

When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to keep yours.

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

In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one’s head.

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. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.

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

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.

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.