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!
QUEEN VICTORIAWe are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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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 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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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Everybody grows but me.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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