The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.

[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors.