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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l’ai pas fait exprès”