Controversial Sayings

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

Since the best man could not be obtained, mediocre ones would have to be accepted.

Cabbage and turnips have driven me away, had my mother cooked meat, I'd have opted to stay.

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.

The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hubbub.

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes!

I may not be a political genius, but I have eyes and I see.

It is my duty to give to the poor and make the miserable happy.

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?

Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it.

I was born to be a queen, but I am now destined to be a martyr.

I pardoned my enemies; I loved my people and they turned against me.

In this place, I stop being a queen to become myself.

Remember, they won't use a grain of poison against me. The Brinvilliers are not from this century: we have slander, which is much better to kill people; and it is through it that I will be killed.

The people have been deceived; they have been cruelly deceived, but it is neither by my husband nor by me.

Oh my God, if we have committed faults, we have certainly expiated them.

It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness.

The powers must recognize that this is a question of vital interest not only for all sovereigns, but for all orders, states, and classes of citizens in all countries and in republics as well as monarchies.