20 Famous Quotes That Were Never Actually Spoken

15. "If They Have No Bread, Let Them Eat Cake" - Marie Antoinette

Queen Antoinette was pretty much hated by all French peasants and, although she may have thought it, she never actually told the starving 18th Century proletariat to "eat cake".

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his book Confessions, wrote the line: "Make-shift of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread and replied: 'Let them eat brioche'."

This satirical piece only implied that Antoinette said it, in a sarcastic way, but the reality is she didn't tell the French peasantry to eat a sweet, French cake-like bread as an alternative to their normal baguette.