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

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

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.

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

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.

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