Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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.
We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and missed the fine hills so much. There is a great peculiarity about the Highlands and Highlanders; and they are such a chivalrous, fine, active people.
Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity...
Everybody grows but me.
He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind’s appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl – and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage.
I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
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!
An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.