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!
QUEEN VICTORIAHis 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!
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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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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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Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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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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Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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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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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Were women to “unsex” themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
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