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.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe will not have failure – only success and new learning.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Everybody grows but me.
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