Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'

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

[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.

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.

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.