What I really meant was . . .

in The Circus
Recently a certain world political figure made headlines when he put his foot in his mouth, and promptly changed course by putting it up his derriere instead.
What a different world it would be if certain historical figures had said what they really meant to say, rather than what they did say.
For example: Marie Antoinette, the world's first diet queen, could have given rise to generations of physically fit Frenchmen and changed forever one of the world's most renown cuisines, if she had said what she really meant:
Don't let them eat cake!
What examples spring to your mind?
What a different world it would be if certain historical figures had said what they really meant to say, rather than what they did say.
For example: Marie Antoinette, the world's first diet queen, could have given rise to generations of physically fit Frenchmen and changed forever one of the world's most renown cuisines, if she had said what she really meant:
Don't let them eat cake!
What examples spring to your mind?
Comments
Caesar
Surely nothing more than a titter stifled behind a lace handkerchief.
All that glitters is gold.
"Woke up on the wrong side of the bed, Rabbi?"