A Quote by Antonia Fraser

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

Antonia Fraser

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Antonia Fraser
British - Author
Born: August 27, 1932

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman was one of those books I read in my mid-twenties that was life-changing. I think I had a very black-and-white view of Marie Antoinette before, but in reading that book, I developed a lot of empathy for her. She was just caught up in history. There was no place for a woman to do anything at that time anyway.

Elizabeth Peyton

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette.

Kathryn Lasky

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

Imelda Marcos

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.

Kathryn Lasky

A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had.

J. Christopher Herold

Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette

Kathryn Lasky

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette

Antonia Fraser

Compared to Imelda Marcos, Marie Antoinette was a bag lady.

Stephen J. Solarz

The one broken window that permanently wouldn't roll up had destroyed her perfectly curled blond prom-hair, and by the time we got to the gym she looked like Marie Antoinette with bedhead.

Kami Garcia

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

Kathryn Lasky

I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.

Antonia Fraser

In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette

Robert Asprin

I have the high honor of being the only person who has been compared to Marie Antoinette, Darth Vader, and Cruella de Vil at once.

Louise Linton

As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!

Antonia Fraser

I have a love for colorful things. I'm a fashion maximalist. I come from the school of people who look at the decoration in Marie Antoinette's bedroom, and think 'Why so reserved?'