“Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine”

“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?”

“But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here?”

“Let them eat cake.”

“When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to keep yours.”

“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”