I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIAI would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIAGreat events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIAFor 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.
QUEEN VICTORIAI think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
QUEEN VICTORIAAffairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
QUEEN VICTORIAI don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
QUEEN VICTORIAWe will not have failure – only success and new learning.
QUEEN VICTORIAI feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
QUEEN VICTORIAI am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
QUEEN VICTORIAThat Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
QUEEN VICTORIABeing pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIAYou 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.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe 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.
QUEEN VICTORIAThe 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 VICTORIAThat Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
QUEEN VICTORIA