Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

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.

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

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.

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

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.