"There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it."

"Life is too short to be little."

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

"It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other."

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."