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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

[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.

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

Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.

She was such a beautiful and sweet creature ... and so full of tricks.

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

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.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ...

Then, dear Mamma, I hope you will grant me the first request I make to you, as Queen. Let me be by myself for an hour.

Everybody grows but me.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

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

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

Oh, that peace may come.

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

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

It's not what they think of me that matters - but what I think of them.