The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA
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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Everybody grows but me.
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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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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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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 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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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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For 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.
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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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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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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
QUEEN VICTORIA