Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA
He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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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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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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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 important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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