"The fashion for wearing green wellies is not for me. I prefer something more elegant."

"I always cheer up immensely if anything looks like going wrong, because I know that I am then in my element."

"I just owe my father everything. He brought me up to believe that I was always going to be able to do anything I wanted to do. He was a very remarkable man."

"I always cheer up immensely if anything is said to me that is particularly wounding, because I think, 'There is someone who need not be considered.'"

"I don't mind how much my ministers talk, so long as they do what I say."