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.

My dearest dearest dear Albert sat on a footstool by my side and his excessive love and affection gave me feelings of heavenly love and happiness I never could have hoped to have felt before! He clasped me in his arms and we kissed each other again and again! His beauty... his sweetness and gentleness - really how can I ever be thankful enough to have such a husband! to be called names of tenderness, I have never yet heard used to me before - was bliss beyond belief! Oh! This was the happiest day of my life! May God help me to do my duty as I ought and be worthy of such blessings.

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.

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

Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner . . .

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.

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 in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

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

The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.

“Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.” 

“Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.” 

“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself” 

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.” 

“No human thing is of serious importance.” 

“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” 

“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.” 

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” 

“He was a wise man who invented God.” 

“All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance” 

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” 

“All is flux, nothing stays still” 

“He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.” 

“A dog has the soul of a philosopher.” 

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.” 

“what if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God, himself immortal;...would that be a life to disregard?” 

“That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.” 

“The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.” 

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” 

“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.” 

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

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

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

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

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.

Oh, that peace may come.

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 attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

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

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

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.

When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

Everybody grows but me.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

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

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

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

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

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

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.