[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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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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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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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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