Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy 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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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 important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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