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 who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attenda….

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surel….

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

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 n….

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful..

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

Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the….

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 same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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 t….