No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
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.
The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!
You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment – their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic.
I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe.
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.
In my end is my beginning.
Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.
I love film sets, but I don’t necessarily love being the center of attention.
No more tears now; I will think about revenge.
Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company.
Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.
No one provokes me with impunity.
I fear John Knox’s prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.
As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.
If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to – and learn from each other’s stories.
I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!
The Koran says the killing of an innocent, the taking of an innocent life, is tantamount to killing all of mankind.