Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.

Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.

I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.