Top 17 Marie Antoinette Quotes

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.

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

You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.

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.

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

You can be assured that I need no one’s guidance in anything concerning propriety.

The king is full of kindnesses toward me, and I love him tenderly. But it is pitiable to see his weakness for Madame du Barri, who is the silliest and most impertinent creature that it is possible to conceive.

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.

My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic‘s labour.

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

My mother sees things but from the distance; she does not weigh them in regard to my position, and she judges me too harshly. But she is my mother, who loves me dearly; and when she speaks, I can only bow my head.

I should be very sorry if the Germans disapproved of me.

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.

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

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

I have begun the ‘History of England‘ by Mr. Hume. It seems to me very interesting, though it is necessary to recollect that it is a Protestant who has written it.

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.