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

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

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.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

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

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

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Just close your eyes—and think of England.

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.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Everything does fall. It must be gravity.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.

Yet still the time:- 'It's so nice to come home'.

signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.