Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness. Marie Antoinette More Quotes by Marie Antoinette More Quotes From Marie Antoinette I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau. Marie Antoinette aids revolution painful Let them eat cake. Marie Antoinette cake I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly. Marie Antoinette birth complaining pregnancy I am calm, as people are whose conscience are clear. Marie Antoinette I feel profound sorrow in leaving my poor children: you know that I only lived for them and for you, my good and tender sister. You who out of love have sacrificed everything to be with us, in what a position do I leave you! Marie Antoinette I pardon all my enemies the evils that they have done me. I bid farewell to my aunts and to all my brothers and sisters. I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them. Marie Antoinette If you weaken the monarchy, you undermine the entire nation. Marie Antoinette In our own misfortunes how much comfort has our affection for one another afforded us! And, in times of happiness, we have enjoyed that doubly from being able to share it with a friend; and where can one find friends more tender and more united than in one's own family? Marie Antoinette It is to you, my sister, that I write for the last time. I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, for such is only for criminals, but to go and rejoin your brother. Innocent like him, I hope to show the same firmness in my last moments. Marie Antoinette 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 Let my son never forget the last words of his father, which I repeat emphatically; let him never seek to avenge our deaths. Marie Antoinette I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. Marie Antoinette seen heard forgotten No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently. Marie Antoinette treat us will me My mother sees things but from the distance; she does not weigh them in regard to my position, and she judges me too harshly. But she is my mother, who loves me dearly; and when she speaks, I can only bow my head. Marie Antoinette me distance i-can mother 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 king me weakness love It is an amazing feature in the French character that they will let themselves be led away so easily by bad counsels and yet return again so quickly. It is certain that as these people have, out of their misery, treated us so well, we are the more bound to work for their happiness. Marie Antoinette work happiness character people 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 king bad great sea It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if I did not. Marie Antoinette dress true i-am feathers My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic's labour. Marie Antoinette king who mechanic hunting You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety. Marie Antoinette need anything you guidance