Marie Antoinette Quotes

“But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here?”
― Marie Antoinette

“Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette”
― Kathryn Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria, France, 1769

“It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I lived there.”
― Maurice Minnifield

“As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!”
― Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey

“No one really does know how to have fun here at all. It is all etiquette.”
― Kathryn Lasky

“Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.”
― Kathryn Lasky

“Ingrid shrugged...like Marie Antoinette hearing about the starving peasants.”
― Peter Abrahams, Down the Rabbit Hole

“The places that once knew [Marie Antoinette] now know her forever.”
― Grace Greenwood

“She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer.”
― Kathryn Lasky

“Kings who become prisoners are not far from death.”
― Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey

“We dug the asparagus, and tonight Aunt Charlotte cooked it for me herself with butter and melted cheese. I ate a whole plateful and drank half the brown jug of sweet milk. Then I had two slices of the thick coarse-grain bread that Aunt and the nuns make fresh every day.”
― Kathryn Lasky

“What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.”
― Kathryn Lasky

“Le parece maravilloso verse envuelta por la ardiente muchedumbre, dejarse amar por ese desconocido pueblo; en adelante sigue disfrutando de este amor de veinte millones de criaturas como de un derecho propio, sin sospechar que el derecho impone también deberes y que el amor mas puro acaba por fatigarse si no se siente correspondido.”
― Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman

“Looking without passion is always a good plan where history is concerned. But is it really possible with regard to the career and character of Marie Antoinette?”
― Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey

“Erst im Unglück weiß man wahrhaft, wer man ist.”
― Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman

“It is in misfortune that you realize your true nature.”
― Antonia Fraser quoting Marie Antoinette

“. . . from her earliest days at Versailles, Marie Antoinette staged a revolt against entrenched court etiquette by turning her clothes and other accoutrements into defiant expressions of autonomy and prestige . . . it is my belief that she identified fashion as a key weapon in her struggle for personal prestige, authority, and sometimes mere survival.”
― Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“I am human, a woman with a living, beating heart first, before I am queen!!”
― Riyoko Ikeda, The Rose of Versailles, Omnibus 2

“What was happening was a maniacal assault on the inhabitants of the Paris prisons, with some of the royal family’s most beloved attendants still incarcerated in the La Force. These included the Marquise de Tourzel and Pauline-and that hate figure so often in obscene popular publications, the lesbian paramour of the “Infamous Antoinette”, the Princesse de Lamballe.”
― Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey

“Grab one of the gorgeous Baccarat crystal glasses you bought me for Christmas last year, Sophie," said Walter. "Didn't your grandmother tell you it's the only way champagne should be served?"
Robert smirked and pointed to the buffet. "We certainly don't drink Dom straight from the bottle."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," I said. "How crass of me."
I meandered over to grab a glass- a coupe de champagne, the oldest design, preceding flute and tulip glasses. Legend had it that the bowl of glass was modeled after the breast of Marie Antoinette.”
― Samantha Verant, The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux

“You can't have your cake and eat it too. Let them eat croissants.”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

“. . . historians rarely emphasize the tremendous importance that [Marie Antoinette's] public attached to what she was wearing at each step along the way.”
― Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“. . . Marie Antoinette established herself as a force to be reckoned with - as a queen who commanded as much attention as the most dazzling king or mistress, and whose imposing stature had nothing to do with her maternal prospects.”
― Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“. . . Marie Antoinette's wardrobe was the stuff of dreams, and the space of nightmares.”
― Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“Generally, if Marie Antoinette had worn a gown once, she did not wear it again.”
― Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“[Marie Antoinette] went to great lengths to underscore the notion that the realm of Trianon was ruled by her and her alone.”
― Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“Even when faced with unspeakable loss, Marie Antoinette tackled her difficulties as she always had - by choosing costumes that emphasized her resilience of spirit.”
― Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“Even as she faced execution, Marie Antoinette's will to control her image, to manage it through her clothing, had not left her.”
― Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“Unlike a Eugenie or a Jackie, but quite like her ancestor the Sun King, Marie Antoinette helped invent fashion as a high-stakes political game - one that she played in dead earnest, and with deadly results. A winner-take-all affair, her program of singular sartorial defiance implicated not just her autonomy and her prestige, but her crown and, eventually, her life.”
― Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“On the 5th of October, in pouring rain, some 6,000 working women, fishwives, cleaners, marketstall holders, and prostitutes, marched on Versailles. Their ostensible reason was a rumor that at a welcome banquet given for the Flanders Regiment, newly arrived at the palace, the tricolor cockade had been trampled underfoot (...) armed with scythes, pikes, and any other weapons they could lay their hands on, they marched straight to the National Assembly, shouting their slogans and screaming for bread (...) In the early hours of the next day, the king and queen were awakened by furious shouts of, "mort à la femme Autrichienne", death to the Austrian woman.”
― John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle