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.

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'

That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of tricks.