Marie Antoinette

The powers must recognize that this is a question of vital interest not only for all sovereigns, but for all orders, states, and classes of citizens in all countries and in republics as well as monarchies.

There will be massacres in the name of revenge. There will be massacres to gain twenty-four hours in order to have time to escape. Everyone is armed. Things will be in a deplorable state, and crime and murder will enter into people's houses and no citizen will be assured of surviving from one day to the next.

The King has done everything to avoid civil war, and he is still very much convinced that civil war cannot correct anything, and that it shall, in the end, destroy everything.

Let them eat cake.

I am afraid of nothing but boredom.

It is a great misfortune to be a queen.

I am just a poor little lamb and I do not want to be a queen.

One must not be too sensitive in this world.

My heart is not made for dissimulation.

I have been unfortunate, but I have never been wicked.

I hope that my death will be the last one.

Forgive me, sir, I did not do it on purpose.

It is astonishing how little notice I take of the clamor of the mob.

I know that my sister-in-law is the cleverest and most intriguing woman in France.

I never thought the day would come when I would envy the fate of a private individual.

My only consolation is that I have never done harm to anyone.

I am calm, as one is when one has nothing to reproach oneself with.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

I have no longer any strength, nor any hope.

My dearest sister, farewell! Think sometimes of your poor sister.