The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.
QUEEN VICTORIAHe speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among 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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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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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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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Everybody grows but me.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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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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