Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

Never explain, never complain.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

I'm not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.