Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
QUEEN VICTORIAI positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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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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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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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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 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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