Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

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

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.

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

Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.