Quotes from Marie Antoinette

No, do not love me, it is better to give me death!

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?

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

Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.

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?

I am calm, as people are whose conscience are clear.

Let my son never forget the last words of his father, which I repeat emphatically; let him never seek to avenge our deaths.

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.