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

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

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

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

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