I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIAI am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl – and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage.
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