You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment – their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
QUEEN VICTORIA[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
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