He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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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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[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 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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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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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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