I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Everybody grows but me.
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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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