Marie Antoinette Quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Marie-Antoinette: This is ridiculous.

    Comtesse de Noailles: This, Madame, is Versailles.

  • Marie-Antoinette: [referring to her hair] It's not too much, is it?

    Léonard: Oh, no!

  • Marie-Antoinette: Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

  • Princesse de Lamballe: Can't you do something?

    Marie-Antoinette: I'm not going to acknowledge it.

  • Marie-Antoinette: [her first words to Du Barry] There are a lot of people at Versailles today.

    Madame du Barry: Yes, there are.

    Marie-Antoinette: [walking away] Those are my last words to that woman.

  • Duchesse de Polignac: There's something in the oysters!

  • Duchesse de Polignac: Oh, good! The chickens are out!

  • Duchesse de Polignac: Have you ever been with a Russian?

  • Marie-Antoinette: So, I hear you like to make keys as a hobby?

    Louis XVI: Yes.

    Marie-Antoinette: And do you enjoy making keys?

    Louis XVI: Obviously.

  • [Last Lines]

    Louis XVI: Are you admiring your lime avenue?

    Marie-Antoinette: I'm just saying good-bye.

  • Louis XVI: Ooooh! Your feet are like icicles!

  • Marie-Antoinette: I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness.

    Duc de Choiseul: And that of France.

  • Ambassador Mercy: How pretty Madame Royale is today.

    Marie Therese - 6 years: I am pleased you find me so.

  • Marie-Antoinette: [to her first-born, a daughter] Oh, you were not what was desired, but that makes you no less dear to me. A boy would have been the Son of France, but you, Marie Thérèse, shall be mine.

  • Duchesse de Polignac: [to Léonard] I love your hair. What's going on there?

    Léonard: Everything!

  • Princesse de Lamballe: I would have told him exactly what to do with it.

    Duchesse de Polignac: Oh? What's that, darling?

    Princesse de Lamballe: Put it back in his trousers where it belongs.

    Duchesse de Polignac: Lamballe, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a prude.

  • Marie-Antoinette: [her dog, Mops, is taken away] Mops!

    Comtesse de Noailles: You may have as many French dogs as you like.

  • Ambassador Mercy: Madame du Barry would like to offer you some diamonds.

    Marie-Antoinette: I have enough diamonds.

    Ambassador Mercy: Snubbing the King's favorite is publicly criticizing the King's behavior. All you need to do is say a few words to her; because of rank she is not allowed to speak to you first.

    Marie-Antoinette: Well, I certainly have nothing to say to her. And why should I approve of his cavorting with a harlot?

    Ambassador Mercy: [reproachfully] Your Royal Highness!

    Marie-Antoinette: Well, that's what she is. Everyone knows that she's from a brothel and that title was bought for her.

    Ambassador Mercy: Your mother and I are very concerned. Du Barry has been complaining to the King that you will not address her, and you cannot afford to fall out of favor with the King. Especially as your marriage... not exactly on solid ground.

    Marie-Antoinette: [annoyed] Fine. I'll talk to her.

  • Madame du Barry: See no one treats me like a lady here.

  • Maria Teresa: [in her letter to Marie Antoinette] Remember you represent the future and nothing is certain about your place there until the final physical act to crown the Franco-Austrian alliance is performed.

  • Louis XV: [on his death bed] Bring me Du Barry.

    Duc de Choiseul: She is gone.

  • Marie-Antoinette: [about Du Barry] Where does she come from?

    Aunt Sophie: [chuckling] From every bed in Paris.

  • Marie-Antoinette: Am I to be Austrian or the Dauphine of France?

    Ambassador Mercy: You must be both.

  • Duc de Choiseul: [about Louis and Antoinette's wedding night] Appearently... nothing happened.

    Louis XV: [surprised] Nothing?

    Duc de Choiseul: Nothing, my lord.

    Madame du Barry: [chuckling] Oh, dear!

  • Louis XV: [blessing Louis and Antoinette's marriage] Good luck and good work.

  • Marie-Antoinette: [taking tea in the royal chambers] Have you come to take me home?

    Emperor Joseph: [amused] Unfortunately, I can not kidnap the queen of France... Is your hair quite tall enough today?

    [she laughs]

    Emperor Joseph: Maybe you can keep a pet in there or something.

  • Marie-Antoinette: [in the gardens] Welcome to my little village!

    Princesse de Lamballe: I love it!

    Duchesse de Polignac: It's heaven here!

  • Duchesse de Char: [to her husband about an invitation from the queen] How can we be expected to live in a place if are not certain about our position?

  • Marie-Antoinette: I wish I could go with you.

    Count Fersen: I should kidnap you.

  • Ambassador Mercy: How pretty Madame Royale is today.

    Marie Therese - 6 years: I am pleased you find me so.

    Marie-Antoinette: [to her daughter] Say thank you.

    Ambassador Mercy: She is certainly a daughter of France.

    Marie-Antoinette: [laughingly] Oh, I know.