The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIAI would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Were women to “unsex” themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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.
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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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