- Lord Palmerston: We must face the fact that the prince is the best hated man in the country.
- Prince Albert: And you the best loved?
- Lord Palmerston: That would at least give Your Highness and myself something in common - to be opposite ends of the same stick.
- Queen Victoria: Lord Palmerston, we are not amused!
- Queen Victoria: I need to go back and discuss with Sir Robert Peel a new tax. He calls it the 'income tax'. I fear it is not going to be very popular.
- Joseph Chamberlain: I do not feel any great horror at the idea of the possible establishment of a republic in this country. I am quite certain that sooner or later, it will come.
- Queen Victoria: Do you have steam trains in Germany Albert?
- Prince Albert: Yes, of course we have.
- Queen Victoria: But not as fast as this. Look - there are the boys from Eton school and they can hardly keep up with us. That shows how fast we're travelling.