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

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

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 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.

Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

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