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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!

Queen Victoria

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 VICTORIA

Goodness Hate Love Peace Quiet Woman
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Pregnant Wife
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Alcohol Drinking Impossible Practice
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!
QUEEN VICTORIA

Danger Greatness Man Wild
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Courage Man Thinking Women
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Alcohol Myself People Revolution
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Goodness Woman
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Doubt Happiness Marriage Poor Thinking
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Important Myself Thinking
Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Home Men Quick
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Relationship Time
I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Baby Thinking Young
I 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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Myself Pregnant Thinking
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Calm Event Myself Peace
He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Myself Politics Talk
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Children Disappointment Grow Up Parents

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