Top 29 Quotes by Antonia Fraser

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

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

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.