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

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

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Oh, that peace may come.