The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
Were women to “unsex” themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
Just close your eyes—and think of England.
Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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.
My dearest dearest dear Albert sat on a footstool by my side and his excessive love and affection gave me feelings of heavenly love and happiness I never could have hoped to have felt before! He clasped me in his arms and we kissed each other again and again! His beauty… his sweetness and gentleness – really how can I ever be thankful enough to have such a husband! to be called names of tenderness, I have never yet heard used to me before – was bliss beyond belief! Oh! This was the happiest day of my life! May God help me to do my duty as I ought and be worthy of such blessings.
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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.
Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don’t (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner . . .
That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
She was such a beautiful and sweet creature… and so full of tricks.
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
