Honorable Quotable: Madame Beatrix de Grammont

Beatrix de Grammont by Roslin 

She was a self-confident and beautiful woman. She was alive during the French Revolution, where there was always a threat of death. When she faced the Revolutionary Tribunal at the threat of death, she was interrogated at the trial and asked: "Didn't you send money to emigrants?"
She answered with this memorable quote:

 I would say no but my life is not worth a lie.

Sources:

Mémoires de Duc de Lauzun (1747-1783). by Antione Louis de Gontaut, p.8.