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 Read Quote
My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic’s labour. Marie Antoinette Read Quote
I feel more and more, every day of my life, how much my dear mamma has done for my establishment. I was the youngest of all her daughters, and she has treated me as if I were the eldest, so that my whole soul is filled with the most tender gratitude. Marie Antoinette Read Quote
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. Marie Antoinette Read Quote
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. Marie Antoinette Read Quote
We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but they, though very well in their way, were not what touched me most. What was really affecting was the tenderness and earnestness of the poor people, who, in spite of the taxes with which they are overwhelmed, were transported with joy at seeing us. Marie Antoinette Read Quote
You can be assured that I need no one’s guidance in anything concerning propriety. Marie Antoinette Read Quote
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. Marie Antoinette Read Quote
No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother. Marie Antoinette Read Quote
