Marie Antoinette Quotes

“Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette”
― Kathryn Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria, France, 1769

“Marie Antoinette insisted on having likenesses of the heads of her favorite dogs carved on the armrests of her chairs.”
― Kathryn Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769

“Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with—often with cruel and deceitful intentions—in an unreal world.”
― Kathryn Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769

“But my thought was, of course I must be magnificent .... I must sparkle. I must always sparkle whether I laugh or cry. I must dazzle and then no one will see the real me. I shall just be this bright and shining thing.”
― Kathryn Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria, France, 1769

“Bend over, Freddy of Prussia Let the Empress take aim Your butt will fly to Russia Your brains to sunny Spain”
― Kathryn Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769