Creative Quotations from Marie Antoinette (1755-1795)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Marie Antoinette
(1755-1795) born on Nov 02

Austrian ruler. "She was the Queen Consort of Louis XVI of France remembered as being frivolous, imprudent, prodigal and an enemy of reform."

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

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

'Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.' Let them eat cake.

"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."

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

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Reply to inquisitors, Oct 1789."
R:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A:	"Traditional but wrong attribution [The remark, perhaps apocryphal, was attributed to others much earlier.]"
N:	"Remark at the revolutionary tribunal, 14 Oct 1793."
K:	"Remark on way to guillotine, 16 Oct 1793."