We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
QUEEN VICTORIAGreat events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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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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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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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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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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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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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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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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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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