We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIAI feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Everybody grows but me.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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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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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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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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