Let them eat cake.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

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

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

Let them eat cake.

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 feel more and more, every day of my life, how much my dear mamma has done for my establishment. I was the youngest of all her daughters, and she has treated me as if I were the eldest, so that my whole soul is filled with the most tender gratitude.

I have begun the 'History of England' by Mr. Hume. It seems to me very interesting, though it is necessary to recollect that it is a Protestant who has written it.

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

I should be very sorry if the Germans disapproved of me.

In a month's time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is fixed for May 14th; they had prepared many fetes for this marriage, but now they are economising in them for want of money.

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.

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.

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.

My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them. The king will not have the same weaknesses as his grandfather. I hope that he will have no favorites; but I am afraid that he is too mild and too easy. You may depend upon it that I will not draw the king into any great expenses.

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.

My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic's labour.

No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently.

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.

The king and the dauphin both like to see me on horseback. I only say this because all the world perceives it, and especially while we were absent from Versailles, they were delighted to see me in my riding habit.

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.

We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but they, though very well in their way, were not what touched me most. What was really affecting was the tenderness and earnestness of the poor people, who, in spite of the taxes with which they are overwhelmed, were transported with joy at seeing us.

You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety.

You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.

Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far.

Dreams weigh nothing.

In times of crisis it is of utmost importance to keep ones head.

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays their ideas and their attitudes the stance that they adopt in the world are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai.

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.'

As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

I made a stamp with Destiny's Child. We made a stamp together, above anything. And making a stamp on my own, I'm very proud.

When you're in a club or a theater or even an arena, yeah, you want visuals, you want a good light show. But Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.

In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.

I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

You dont burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.