As a British prime minister remarked at the time, people had never had it so good.

Throughout her childhood, ministers and courtiers remarked that the Tenth Princess, as Hexiao was commonly referred to as, resembled her father in appearance.

Syria's foreign minister remarked that the Arab public's desire for war was irresistible.

Another minister remarked that he didn't know another church for miles around that had seen so many people converted to Christian faith.

Napoleon's foreign minister, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, once remarked: "Empire is the art of putting men in their place".

"I sometimes suspect that the up-and-up has a little bit of down in it in the middle," remarked the minister.

Then she sat down out of breath, and the minister, who hadn't heard a word she said, immediately remarked, in a very devout voice, 'amen!

In 1913, the minister of native affairs remarked: "If the mines continue to employ these people, it would be little less than murder."

"It is typically Norwegian to be good," a former prime minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland, once remarked famously.

The Italian foreign minister, Galeazzo Ciano, remarked that it "marked a new phase in the crumbling of the Little Entente.