Marie Antoinette Quotes

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".

The fundamental error of Europe has been to confine the light of knowledge to the wealthy and great, while the humble and the depressed have been as sedulously excluded from its participation as the wretched criminal, immured in a dungeon, is from the light of Heaven.

I don't apologize for my diamonds, Rolls-Royce, Range Rover, or anything. Look, Queen Elizabeth has more diamonds than me. Why don't people attack her for it?

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.

If I see a baby, I don't feel anything. It's like Theresa May walking past a homeless person.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.

We live in a very unequal society.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

The conservatives say they are protecting the values of society. They are protecting their privileges.

To detail the real evils of aristocracy, they must be seen in Europe.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.