She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of tricks.
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!
He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.