"I am afraid of boredom."

"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."

"I am perfectly well, and I have nothing to complain about."

"My only desire is to finish my days in peace."

"Remember, they won't use a grain of poison against me. The Brinvilliers are not from this century: we have slander, which is much better to kill people; and it is through it that I will be killed."