Kathryn Lasky Quotes

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.

Let them eat cake.

I was actually very hesitant to write about Marie Antoinette. She seemed at first glance - well, I cannot think of any other term - an airhead of the first degree.

Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.

The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Everyone knows I married a prince, and then I married a billionaire.

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?

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

With a good education and a solid childhood, Marie-Antoinette might have become one of the most admired women in Europe. As it was, the empress paid no attention to her youngest daughter until an accident of nuptial politics made the girl a candidate to marry the French dauphin.

The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.

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

When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.

I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us and we want to be dandy.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.