An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
QUEEN VICTORIAShe was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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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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Everybody grows but me.
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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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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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 important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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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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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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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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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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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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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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