Author: Marie Antoinette

Quotes

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.

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.

- Marie Antoinette

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.

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.

- Marie Antoinette

Let them eat cake.

Let them eat cake.

- Marie Antoinette

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

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

- Marie Antoinette

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.

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.

- Marie Antoinette

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