When have I last seen you?
I have governed your kingdom for you in the meanwhile, and there I got no help.

At last, when I am weary with a man's work, and you are weary of your playthings, you return to make me a scene of conjugal reproaches--the grocer and his wife! The positions are too much reversed; and you should understand, at least, that I cannot at the same time do your work of government and behave myself like a little girl.

Scandal is the atmosphere in which we live, we princes; it is what a prince should know.

You play an odious part.
Do you believe this rumour ?' 'Madam, should I be here ?' said Otto.
'It is what I want to know!' she cried, the tempest of her scorn increasing.

'Suppose you did--I say, suppose you did believe it ?' 'I should make it my business to suppose the contrary,' he answered.
'I thought so.