Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
QUEEN VICTORIAOh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe 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 VICTORIAThe 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!
QUEEN VICTORIAI would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIAHe speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
QUEEN VICTORIAGreat events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIAHis 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 VICTORIABeing pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIAI 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.
QUEEN VICTORIAI 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.
QUEEN VICTORIAAn ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
QUEEN VICTORIAJust close your eyes—and think of England.
QUEEN VICTORIAFor a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe will not have failure – only success and new learning.
QUEEN VICTORIABeing married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIANothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
QUEEN VICTORIA