Queen Victoria1819–1901- After being shot at by Roderick Maclean on 2 March 1882, as quoted in Stanley Weintraub, Victoria. Biography of a queen (1987), p. 450.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
Said to Arthur Balfour at Windsor during “Black Week” (December 1899), as recorded in Lady Gwendolen Cecil, Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury, vol. 3 (1931)
