depressed quotes

Please understand that there is no one depressed in this house.Wearenot interestedinthepossibilities ofdefeat; they do not exist.

-Victoria in full  Alexandrina Victoria
  On the 2nd BoerWar. Comment to the Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour, Dec. Quoted in Lady Gwendolen Cecil Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury (1931), vol.3, ch.6.