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

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

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

There is, however, another subject on which the Queen feels most strongly, and that is this horrible, brutalizing, un-Christian-like vivisection…It must really not be permitted. It is a disgrace to a civilized country.

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

Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.

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