Queen Victoria

I am very much pleased with the loyalty of my people.

The Queen is very much pleased with the progress of her reign.

I am very much pleased with the loyalty of my Empire.

The Queen is very much pleased with the progress of her life.

I am very much pleased with the loyalty of my family.

The Queen is very much pleased with the progress of her children.

I am very much pleased with the loyalty of my grandchildren.

The Queen is very much pleased with the progress of her great-grandchildren.

I am very much pleased with the loyalty of my subjects.

The Queen is very much pleased with the progress of her world.

We are not amused.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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 true to ourselves and to the world, must try to make the world more right and hope and justice.

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and overwhelmed mother of an unborn child.

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

I don't dislike babies, though I think tiny black ones rather frightful.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to press upon the government all that is needed.

I possess neither talent or taste for kingship.