help meeeeeeeeee!

[bingbong1]

i am trying to find out what one of the following victorian sayings is not true because its part of my daughters home work.
the sayings are...
let them eat cake
we are amused
and spare the rod and spoil the children
thanks

[lafrancaise]

Let them eat cake was said to have been said by Marie Antoinette in the 18th century so NOT Victorian

[bingbong1]

thank you for your help i am very sure that my daughter will find your information very handy seeing that she has a test on victorians on monday

thanks again

[drchasuble]

Let them eat cake was not actually said by Marie Antoinette.
Louis XIV's Spanish wife Maria Teresa said it almost a century before but it is always mistakenly ascribed to Marie Antoinette who was in fact a very charitable woman who at the time of the "Flour War" tried to stop the royal hunting parties ride over the peasant's cornfields as she was well aware that they needed the crop to survive.

Queen Victoria allegedly said we are not amused, using the royal we.

[Peter Pedant]

and spare the rod and spoil the child is victorian saying

although there is an Old testament counterpart, I think

[Shin Yodama]

I think you may find that the third "well known saying" is the answer you seek. It is actually "We are NOT amused" which Queen Victoria was purported to have exclaimed.