You must go out and you must smile. You must smile and wave, and never let them know how hard it is to bear.[to Victoria]
Any damn fool can be Prime Minister, but to leave behind a thing of beauty, something like this, something that people will marvel over centuries from now, that’s worth living for.
When people are hungry they fancy themselves radicals.
The problem with a scandal is that the mud does not always stick to the right people.
I’m afraid the truth is vastly overrated.
Jealousy is a most tedious emotion.
It’s always easier to give advice than it is to follow it.
Illness is for people with nothing better to do.
If the people get into the way of making kings they might get into the way of unmaking them.
