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.

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

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.

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 danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!

Oh, that peace may come.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.