Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIAI don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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The 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.
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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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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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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Everybody grows but me.
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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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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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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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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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